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The International Municipal 
Congress and Exposition 

Chicago, United States of America 
September 18 to 30, 1911 


A World Conference and Exhibition 
for the Development of 20th Century 
ideals of Municipal Economy, Progress 
and Perfection. 

A Show-Place and a Market-Place 
for Every Article 0 /Material, Machinery 
and Equipment that enters into the 
Construction and Operation of a 
Modern City. 

Held with the co-operation of the 
City of Chicago, the Chicago Association 
of Commerce, the Citizen’s Association, 
the Industrial Club, the Civic Federation, 
the City Club, the United Charities, 
and the Rotary Club. 


To be held in the Coliseum, the 1st 
Regiment Armory and 
adjoining plaza . 


General Offices: 1107 Great Northern 
Building, Chicago, Illinois 

Telephones: Harrison 4295; Automatic 64295 
Cable Address: “ Interexpo , Chicago" 


Officially Approved by the United States Government 



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Who gave the International Municipal Congress and Exposition the endorsement of the United States 
Government and engaged to deliver an address before the Congress. 









IT\-MAKING is one of the new sciences of the twentieth 
century. It has been made so by the demand of those who are 
taxed, that their cities shall be as carefully and economically 
managed as they themselves manage their business affairs. The 
result has been that those who govern cities are studying admin¬ 
istrative problems more and more searchingly every year. 

How can they improve their municipal accounting systems? 

How can they raise the standard of their street paving and repair work? 

How can they provide more efficient police and fire protection ? 

How can they draw contracts for public works better to protect their 
cities from overcharge and from faulty construction ? 

What do the world’s experts say with reference to the best accounting 
systems for cities to use ? 

What do the world’s foremost thinkers along municipal lines say about 
city methods ? 

What is the latest improved machinery that a city can buy to use in its 
maintenance and growth ? 

These and many others are the problems that confront the modern city 
builder. 

To solve these questions the INTERNATIONAL MUNICIPAL 
CONGRESS and EXPOSITION was originated. 

Two years ago a number of the leaders in the Chicago Association of Com¬ 
merce first planned to supply, in convenient form, the demand for more general 
knowledge of the best methods of city government. Never but once in the 
history of the world had a conference of municipal experts been held, and that 
was in Berlin many years ago. The attendance was general, but the scope of 
exhibits was not broad. 

It was planned to bring the city officials and students of the development 
of city life to Chicago to participate in a congress at which free discussion 
of every subject connected with twentieth century government of cities might 
be had, to bring out the best ideas of the world’s most advanced city experts. 

Together with this idea grew a plan to hold, simultaneously with this 
Congress, an Exposition at which each city so disposed might exhibit features 
of its administration of which it has reason to be proud, and at which every 
up-to-date device for convenience and efficiency in city government 
might be exhibited by its manufacturers. 










The Chicago Association of Commerce found ready approval of this new 
project, and many other civic organizations of Chicago agreed to co-operate. 

The matter was laid before the City Council and on January 24, 1910, 
the aldermen voted to co-operate in inviting the cities of the world to partici¬ 
pate in the gigantic undertaking. The Coliseum and First Regiment Armory 
were rented, together with all the available outdoor space adjoining those two 
structures, and the time for the Congress and Exposition was set to be Sep¬ 
tember 18-30, 1911. 

John M. Ewen, who was chairman of the Harbor Commission of the City 
of Chicago, and consulting engineer in the construction of the new City Hall 
and County Buildings at Chicago was selected to be chairman of the Congress 
and Exposition. 

Edward H. Allen was made general manager of the Exposition and was 
given the task of assembling the exhibits that will be shown. He had floor 
plans of all the exhibit space drawn up and allotted the entire Coliseum annex 
to the exhibits of the cities, the entire First Regiment Armory to the sessions 
of the Congress and, in order to pay the enormous expense of the undertaking, 
arranged to sell the remainder of the floor space for a regular stated price per 
square foot to the manufacturers of devices and material used by cities. 

Curt M. Treat, formerly secretary of the Convention Bureau of The 
Chicago Association of Commerce, was made secretary of the Congress and 
Exposition. 

John MacVicar, one of the directors of the commission government of Des 
Moines and formerly mayor of that city, was appointed commissioner-general 
of the Congress and Exposition and given the task of bearing, in person, invita¬ 
tions to city officials and experts everywhere to join in the deliberations of the 
Congress and to the city governments themselves to send exhibits to the Exposi¬ 
tion. He has toured the United States three times on this mission, with great 
success. More than six-thousand officials of fifteen-hundred cities of the United 
States, Canada, and Europe had accepted these invitations up to and including 
May 15, and at that date, sixty cities had agreed to exhibit. 

General offices to transact the complicated business of the great projedf 
were opened at 1107 Great Northern building, and a corps of workers assembled, 
who labor diligently day and night to make the first great International Muni¬ 
cipal Congress and Exposition a tremendous success. 

The Chicago Association of Commerce early in June sent William Hudson 


Harper to Europe to make final arrangements with London, Berlin, Paris 
and the other principal cities that accepted invitations to send delegates and 
to exhibit. Before leaving for his tour, the Association of Commerce invited 
the foreign consuls at Chicago to a luncheon to meet Mr. Harper. They 
enthusiastically endorsed the Congress and Exposition and each one sent a 
report on it to his government to pave the way for Mr. Harper’s work. 


N April 22d, representatives of The Chicago Association of Commerce 
went to Washington, D. C., and called on President William Howard 
Taft and Secretary of State Philander C. Knox. President Taft ex¬ 
pressed hearty approval of the International Municipal Congress and Exposition 
and promised that he would attend the Congress and deliver an address. 

Secretary Knox gave his pledge that he would place the influence of the 
state department behind the Congress and Exposition and instruct the members 
of the diplomatic and consular staff in every city, with which the United States 
has diplomatic relations, to vouch for the Congress and Exposition and to urge 
the officials of these respective cities to send representatives and where possible 
to send exhibits. 

In fulfillment of this pledge Secretary Knox, early in May, sent out the 
following communication of instruction: 



No. 36 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE General Instruction Circular 

INTERNATIONAL MUNICIPAL CONGRESS AND EXPOSITION AT CHICAGO. 

Washington, May 5, 1911. 

To the Diplomatic and Consular Officers of the United States. 

Gentlemen:— 

The Department is advised by The Chicago Association of Commerce 
that there will be held in that city from September 18-30 next an International Municipal 
Congress and Exposition under the auspices of the Association of Commerce. 

This Congress and Exposition will be thoroughly international in its scope, and is 
the first one of this kind ever held in the United States. It is intended to set forth by 
municipal experts the advancement of municipalities by showing the possibilities of 
making city government an asset, and of capitalizing a city’s attractions. 

It is desired that all cities shall participate in the Congress and Exposition which 
have anything to offer of advanced ideas along such lines as charters, forms of govern¬ 
ment, municipal accounting, parks, playgrounds, health, sanitation, charity and cor¬ 
rection, taxation, home rule, schools, police, fire and libraries. 

It is hoped that each city may be represented by a personal delegation and by some 
contribution in the shape of models, charts, photographs or views. 



Secretary of State PHILANDER C. KNOX 

Who placed the stamp of the Official Approval cf the United States on the International Municipal Congress and 
Exposition, by instructing every member of the consular and diplomatic corps to ask the foreign 
cities to which they were accredited to send delegates and exhibits. 




The presence of experts of world-wide fame and known ability will make possible 
at this Congress comparisons between communities and cities, thus offering to some the 
opportunity of contributing, and to others the privilege of learning. 

Formal invitations will be, at a later date, forwarded by the Chicago Association of 
Commerce directly to the municipalities. 

There will be held at the same time, in Chicago, an International Good Roads 
Congress. 

While these Congresses are not under the auspices or official patronage of the 
Government of the United States, this Government would be glad if the Government 
of the country to which you are accredited would give due publicity to the Congresses 
mentioned and would recommend the sending of delegates to those Congresses by the 
municipalties and organizations which may be interested. 

Two copies of the prospectus of the International Municipal Congress and Exposi¬ 
tion are enclosed. 

You will communicate to the Foreign Office the invitations to the Congresses, and 
request that due publicity may be given to them. 

I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, 

P. C. KNOX. 


Early in May, general manager Allen addressed a letter to Mayor Carter 
H. Harrison of Chicago, advising him of the action that had been taken by the 
city council preceding his administration, at which time the council indorsed 
the project, and asking that arrangements be begun for a pretentious exhibit 
to be shown by the city of Chicago. 

At a meeting of the city council Mayor Harrison laid this subject before 
the aldermen, and upon the recommendation of the finance committee, a sub¬ 
committee of aldermen was appointed to prepare Chicago’s exhibit and $5,000 
was appropriated to cover the expense. Alderman Richert, chairman of the city 
council finance committee, was made chairman of this exhibit committee, and 
those named as his associates were Aldermen Harding, Block, Tearney, and Sitts. 
These men got into communication at once with general manager Allen, and 
began arrangements of the city to exhibit its harbor plans, its city playground 
system, and several other features of Chicago’s government. 

Prominent among the cities that are preparing exhibits are New York, 
which is planning to show its famous budget exhibit; Boston; Philadelphia; 
Washington, D. C., which will display the uniform municipal accounting sys¬ 
tem devised for it by Le Grand Powers; Cincinnati, which will show models 
of the Queen & Crescent railroad, said to be the only municipally owned steam 
railroad in existence; Toledo; Detroit; St. Louis; New Orleans; Minneapolis, 
which will exhibit the labor-saving devices used in building and maintaining 
all its public works by day labor; St. Paul; Kansas City, which will display its 


municipally operated road building machinery; Denver, with its street lighting 
and reclamation of city waste land; Seattle; Spokane; Portland, Ore., and the 
California cities, which will co-operate in an extensive exhibit under the man¬ 
agement of the California League of Municipalities. 

When the exposition feature was laid before the larger business men of the 
United States who deal in the lines of manufacture of machinery for cities, they 
at once saw the wonderful possibilities of the undertaking. The biggest and 
most substantial corporations of this country at once made early selections of 
space and it became assured that this department would not only be of the 
greatest educational interest, but also of vast commercial significance. 

Following the notification the cities had received and the personal and 
informal invitations urged upon them by Commissioner General MacVicar,The 
Chicago Association of Commerce sent to every city in the world, of 5,000 oi 
more population, a beautifully engraved invitation to take part in the Congress 
and Exposition. The return mail brought acceptances in great numbers and 
succeeding mails brought names of officially appointed delegates. 

Action of the cities was almost unanimous in instructing delegates 
to examine with particular care all of the commercial exhibits shown 
at the Exposition; to compare the respective merits of different makes 
of machinery and material and to make note of comparative prices. In 
other words, the delegates to the Congress will throng the Exposition 
as authorized purchasing agents, inspecting the exhibits with a view 
to finding out what to buy for their cities. 

The city of Des Moines went further than this and more than a year prior 
to the Congress and Exposition instructed its heads of departments to make no 
more contracts for the purchase of machinery or supplies until the holding of 
the Exposition and to be prepared to make contracts for the purchase upon the 
floor of the Exposition by Des Moines of whatever it needed. 

New York appointed twenty-seven delegates, one or more from each depart¬ 
ment of its city government, to listen and contribute to the discussions of the 
Congress and to inspect the exhibits of the Exposition. 

Other cities hastened to appoint delegates representing their several depart¬ 
ments and the mail of the first two days after these appointments began to arrive 
at the general offices, brought the names and official positions of more than three 
hundred officially appointed delegates. The work of preparing credentials for 
these was begun at once and committees of leading citizens were appointed to 


aid in their entertainment while here and to facilitate their work of examination 
of the exhibits and participation in the Congress. 


HE making up of a program to guide the Congress in its deliberations, 
was begun in the summer of 1910 by Commissioner General MacVicar 
and officials of the Chicago Association of Commerce. This mon¬ 
umental task will not have been completed much before September first. 
The classification of subjects is so wide as to embrace every problem, major or 
minor, that any city official has to grapple with in the performance of his duties. 
Speakers of world wide reputation as city experts have been invited to con¬ 
tribute to the conference. Men highly specialized in particular branches of 
municipal research have been asked to co-operate and have promised to do so. 
Among the speakers early engaged after the completion of the first parts of the 
program of subjects were the following: 

William Howard Taft, President of the United States. 

Right Honorable James Bryce, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipoten¬ 
tiary to the United States from Great Britain. 

Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago. 

Darius A. Brown, Mayor of Kansas City, Mo., and President of the League 
of American Municipalities. 

John E. Reyburn, Mayor of Philadelphia. 

John F. Fitzgerald, Mayor of Boston. 

Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee. 

Geo. W. Perkins of New York. 

Frederick A. Cleveland, Chairman of the United States Economy and 
Efficiency Commission at Washington, D. C. 

Andrew Rinker, City Engineer of Minneapolis, Minn. 

Jas. C. Trevilla, Superintendent of Streets of St. Louis. 

Ella Flagg Young, Superintendent of Schools of Chicago. 

James G. Berryhill of Des Moines, la. 

Secretary Childs of the Short Ballot System. 

Dr. LeGrand Powers, Head of the Government Statistical Bureau at 
Washington, D. C. 

William A. Prendergast, Comptroller of New York City. 

Consulting Engineer Tillston of Manhattan, New York. 



Janies M. Head, Ex-Mayor of Nashville, Tenn. 

E. B. DeGroot of the Playground Association of Chicago. 

Sherman Kingsley, Superintendent of the Chicago Associated Charities. 
Edward F. Croker, Ex-Fire Chief of New York City. 

F. A. Kohler, “Golden Rule” Police Chief of Cleveland, Ohio. 

Chas. C. Healey, Captain of the Chicago Mounted Police. 

Dr. Geo. W. Kohler of Rochester, N. Y. 

Dr. Wm. A. Evans, Former Health Commissioner of Chicago. 

Milo R. Maltby, Public Service Commissioner of New York City. 

Bion J. Arnold, Chairman and Chief Engineer of the Board of Supervis¬ 
ing Engineers, controlling Chicago’s traction problems. 

George W. B. Hicks, City Planning Expert of Philadelphia, Pa. 

Harvey S. Chase, Director of the “Boston 1915 Movement.” 

Henry E. Legler, Librarian of the Chicago Public Library. 

Allen Ripley Foote, President International Tax Association and President 
Ohio State Board of Commerce, Columbus, Ohio. 

Lawson Purdy, Commissioner Taxes and Assessments, New York City. 

J. W. Harris, Assessment Commissioner, Winnipeg, Man. 

Chas. E. Merriam, Former Head of the Merriam Commission of Chicago. 



fighting apparatus and material will be among the most import¬ 
ant and the most interesting exhibits at the Exposition. The fire 
chiefs of the principal cities of the United States and Canada will 
meet at the annual Convention of the International Association of Fire En¬ 
gineers at Milwaukee, Wis. during the first two or three days of the Congress 
and Exposition. The chiefs have been invited to become the guests of the 
Congress and Exposition at the expiration of their Convention and a lake 
steamer has been chartered to bring them to Chicago in a body. They will 
take part in the deliberations of the Congrees on fire protection and kindred 
subjects and then inspect the exhibits of fire fighting supplies on the floor of the 
Exposition. 

For the first time in history the fire chiefs will not have merely to examine 
the apparatus exhibited and then take back to the city officials who have pur¬ 
chasing power, reports as from former exhibitions of fire apparatus, but they will 
have the city officials who possess the right to purchase, with them on the floor 


of the Exposition and will direct the attention of these to the respective merits 
and prices of various kinds of apparatus and material. 

The state fire marshals of the United States and the marshals of the prov¬ 
inces of Canada also will be guests of the Municipal Congress and Exposition. 
These are members of the Association of State Fire Marshals of North America. 
These met in convention at the Hotel LaSalle in Chicago, Thursday, June 15th. 
On that date General Manager Allen appeared before them and offered a formal 
invitation to the members of that organization to join the fire chiefs of the cities 
as guests of the Congress and Exposition. 

Among the delegates to the Congress in addition to those sent by the cities 
will be delegates at large or general representatives of foreign countries. 
Japan, for instance, will send several representatives to study city methods of 
every nation with a view to profiting thereby, if possible, in the administration 
of Japanese cities. 

Not the least important of the delegates to the Congress will be those sent 
by civic and commercial organizations in the various cities. Formal invitations 
have been sent to all such organizations to send representatives to co-operate 
with the delegates of the cities. 

OOD roads will be another of the most important subjects before the 
Congress and will be illustrated by exhibits at the Exposition. Already 
manufacturers of paving materials and machinery have contracted for 
space in large numbers to show their products. The National Good Roads 
Association, foreseeing the great importance of these exhibits, decided to take 
advantage of them and arranged to hold the Fourth Annual International Good 
Roads Congress conjointly with the International Municipal Congress and 
Exposition. 

Voting devices will have important places among the exhibits and their dis¬ 
cussion will receive a great deal of attention at the Congress. Many election 
officials are numbered among the officially appointed delegates. Voting 
machines of many makes will be exhibited in the north end of the balcony of 
the Coliseum and complicated voting contests that will test the efficiency of 
these machines to the utmost, will be arranged so that every visitor to the Expo¬ 
sition will be able to vote on each device, thus trying out the rapidity and 
accuracy with which automatic voting may be done. 



ATER service for cities is perhaps the most vital single subject that 
confronts city officials with absorbing problems. There is more 
money spent by municipalities in the establishment and maintenance 
of water works than almost any other public utility. Therefore, 
water supply with all the kindred subjects that relate to it will absorb a great 
deal of the attention of the city delegates and others who join in the delibera¬ 
tions of the Congress. Especial attention will be shown also to the exhibits 
that have to do with supplying residents of cities with water. 

To this end a special invitation has been sent to the officials of the Amer¬ 
ican Water Works Association to co-operate with the management of the 
Congress and Exposition by sending delegates to the Congress and by helping 
with suggestions and in other ways to secure comprehensive and authoritative 
discussion of water problems. 

The importance of the Exposition department is comprehended at 
once when it is contemplated that delegates to the Congress after a 
discussion in the Congress Hall of, for instance, the respective merits 
of motor driven and horse drawn fire apparatus, will at once step out 
on to the floor of the Exposition in the same building and examine the 
exhibits as illustrative of the arguments and addresses just heard. 



JOHN M. EWEN, Chairman CURT M. TREAT, Secretary 
JOHN MacVICAR, Commissioner General 
EDWARD H. ALLEN, General Manager of Exposition 


■■ GENERAL OFFICES - 

1107 GREAT NORTHERN BUILDING 

CHICAGO 

Telephones: Cable Address: 

HARRISON 4295 “INTEREXPO, 

AUTOMATIC 64295 CHICAGO” 





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Tlie History of an Old Bank 

HIS Bank was incorporated by S. W. Rawson and his associates as the 
Union Trust Company in 1869. It has been located at the corner of 
Dearborn and Madison Streets since its organization, except for the 
period immediately after the Great Fire, and is one of the four oldest 
banking institutions in Chicago. The officers in charge of the bank 
have been associated with it for years. Mr. S. W. Rawson was its president 
until his son, Frederick H. Rawson, was elected to that office, in which capacity 
the latter has since served this institution. 

Mr. F. L. Wilk and Mr. G. M. Wilson, two of the vice-presidents, have 
been with the bank since its incorporation, and have had a large share in shaping the 
bank’s policy during the last forty years. To assist in taking care of its rapidly 
increasing business Mr. H. A. Wheeler, formerly president of the Credit Clear¬ 
ing House, well known to the business men of Chicago, was added to the staff 
during the first part of 1910. Mr. F. P. Schreiber, the cashier, has been asso¬ 
ciated with the bank for forty years. 

Beginning with the modest capital of $125,000, which was all the capital 
actually paid in, this bank has steadily progressed, maintaining its integrity during 
all those years when the tendency towards consolidation among Chicago banks 
was so strong. Its policy has always been to apply the greatest part of the profits 
to the building of reserve against deposits. By this process it has increased its 
capital and surplus account from the original $125,000 to $2,350,000 at which it 
now stands, every dollar of which increase has been made through sound, con¬ 
servative banking methods. 

In the period from 1901 to 1911 the deposits of the Union Trust Company 
have increased from $4,883,686 to $16,470,562, showing a steady, healthy growth 
of business with the public. 

The officers of this bank have always maintained a public spirited interest in civic 
affairs and we have taken this space to show this interest in a concrete way. We in¬ 
vite delegates to this convention to call and make themselves at home at the bank. 

TRIBUNE BUILDING 

Madison and Dearborn Streets 







Delegates to Congress 

This list is necessarily incomplete. Many cities have not yet appointed delegates. 


NEW YORK CITY—27 

Dr. John W. Brannan, President, Bellevue and Al¬ 
lied Hospitals. 

J. Gabriel Britt, President, Board of Elections. 

Charles Strauss, President, Board of Water Supply. 

David I'ergusen, Supervisor, Board of City Record. 

Kingsley L. Martin, Commissioner, Department of 
Bridges. 

Patrick A. Whitney, Commissioner, Board of Cor¬ 
rections. 

Calvin Tomkins, Commissioner, Department of 
Docks and Ferries. 

Egerton L. Winthrop, President, Board of Educa¬ 
tion. 

William A. Prendergast. Comptroller, Department 
of Finance. 

Dr. Ernst J. Lederle, Commissioner of Health. 

Charles B. Stover, Commissioner of Parks, Man¬ 
hattan and Richmond. 

Michael J. Kennedy, Commissioner of Parks, Brook¬ 
lyn and Queens. 

Thomas J. Higgins, Commissioner of Parks, Bronx. 

George IT. Ciiatfield, Secretary, Permanent Census 
Board. 

Michael J. Drummond, Commissioner, Department 
of Public Charities. 

William H. Edwards, Commissioner, Department of 
Street Cleaning. 

Lawson Purdy, President. Department of Taxes and 
Assessment. 

Henry S. Thompson, Commissioner, Department of 
Water Supply, Gas and Electricity. 

Joseph Johnson, Commissioner, Fire Department. 

Rhinelander Waldo, Commissioner, Police Depart¬ 
ment. 

William R. Willcox. President, Public Service Com¬ 
mission. 

Tohn J. Murphy, Commissioner, Tenement House 
Department. 

Cyrus C. Miller, President, Borough of Bronx. 

Alfred E. Steers, President, Borough of Brooklyn. 

George McAneny, President, Borough of Manhattan. 

Lawrence Gresser, President, Borough of Queens. 


George Cromwell, President, Borough of Richmond. 

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS—28 

John F. Fitzgerald, Mayor. 

Walter L. Collins, President City Council. 

John T. Priest, City Clerk. 

Thomas Allen, Chairman Art Commission. 

Richard M. Walsh, Chairman Bath Commission. 
Frederic H. Fay, Bridge Commissioner. 

Arthur G. Everett, Building Commissioner. 

Dr. Charles P. Putnam, Chairman Children’s Insti¬ 
tutions Department. 

John A. Mullen, Fire Chief. 

Dr. Samuel H. Durgin, Chairman Board of Health. 
Horace G. Wadlin, Librarian. 

Robert S. Peabody, Park Commissioner. 

Fred S. Gore, Commissioner Penal Institutions. 
Stephen O'Meara, Police Commissioner. 

William J. Casey, Superintendent Printing Depart¬ 
ment. 

Louis K. Rourke, Commissioner Public Works. 
James H. Sullivan, Highway Division Engineer. 

Frank A. McInnes, Sewer and Waterworks Divi¬ 
sion Engineer. 

Joseph II. Caldwell, Superintendent Water Rates. 
Edward A. Wade, Supervisor Lighting Service. 
David A. Ellis, Chairman School Committee. 

Salem D. Charles, Street Commissioner. 

Frank O. Whitney, Chief Engineer. 

J. Edward Mullen, Superintendent of Supply De' 
partment. 

Charles B. Woolley, City Sealer. 

James E. Cole, Commissioner Department. 

PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA—9 

William A. Magee, Mayor. 

Joseph G. Armstrong, Director Department of Public 
Works. 

John M. Morin, Director Department of Public 
Safety. 

Dr. E. R. Walters, Director Department of Public 
Health. 

A. C. Gumbert. Director Department of Charities. 

E. S. Morrow, City Controller. 

Adolph Edlis, City Treasurer. 




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Charles A. O'Brien, City Solicitor. 

Tiios. J. Hawkins, Chief Assessor. 

BUFFALO, NEW YORK—8 

Louis P. Fuhrmann, Mayor. 

William G. Justice, Comptroller. 

Clark H. Hammond, Corporation Counsel. 

Neil McEaciiren, Treasurer. 

Henry P. Emerson, Superintendent of Education. 
Francis G. Ward, Commissioner of Public Works. 
Louis J. Kenngott, Overseer of the Poor. 

William P. Brennan, Chief Judge City Court. 

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND—15 

James H. Preston, Mayor. 

Frank N. Hoen, Architectural Commissioner. 

Edgar Allan Poe, City Solicitor. 

Harry F. Hooper, Comptroller. 

Benjamin T. Fendall, City Engineer. 

Edward M. Parrish, Fire Commissioner. 

Alfred M. Quick, Water Engineer. 

O. F. Lacky, Harbor Engineer. 

Joseph L. Wickes, Commissioner Street Cleaning 

Calvin W. Hendrick, Chief Engineer Sewerage 
Commission. 

Siierlock Swann, Police Commissioner. 

Edward D. Preston, Inspector of Buildings. 

John E. Semmes, School Commissioner. 

James LI. Van Sickle, Superintendent of Schools. 
W. W. Cherry, President City Council. 

Dr. James Bosley, Commissioner of Health. 

OMAHA, NEBRASKA—16 

James C. Dahlman, Mayor. 

Louis Burmester, President City Council. 

Dan B. Butler, City Clerk. 

Frank A. Furay, City Treasurer. 

C. O. Lobeck, Comptroller. 

Harry E. Burnam, City Attorney. 

Charles H. Witiinell, Building Inspector. 

George W. Craig, City Engineer. 

Thomas J. Flynn, Street Commissioner. 

Ralph W. Connell, Health Commissioner. 
Waldemar Michaelsen, City Electrician. 

John C. Lynch, Plumbing Inspector. 

Joseph Scully, Milk Inspector. 

Charles F. Crowley, Gas Commissioner. 


Robert U. Wolfe, Boiler Inspector. 

John G. Pegg, Inspector Weights and Measures. 

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA—15 

James C. Haynes, Mayor. 

Arthur W. Selover, President City Council. 

C. A. Bloomquist, City Treasurer. 

Dan C. Brown, City Comptroller. 

Henry N. Knott, City Clerk. 

Daniel Fish, City Attorney. 

G. L. Fort, City Assessor. 

Andrew Rinker, City Engineer. 

C. W. Ringer, Chief Engineer, Fire Department. 
Michael Mealey, Superintendent of Police. 

Dr. P. M. Hall, Commissioner of Health. 

James G. Houghton, Inspector of Buildings. 

A. D. Meeds, Inspector of Gas. 

W. R. Young, Registrar Waterworks. 

E. T. Sykes, Supervisor Waterworks. 

ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA—6 

H. P. Keller, Mayor. 

C. H. O’Neill, Corporation Attorney. 

Wm. H. Farnam, Comptroller. 

S. A. Farnsworth, City Treasurer. 

O. Claussen, Commissioner of Public Works. 

Geo. T. Redington, City Clerk. 

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA—7 

Martin Behrman, Mayor. 

Charles R. Kennedy, Comptroller. 

Otto F. Briede, Treasurer. 

George S. Smith, Commissioner of Public Works 
Alex Pujol, Commissioner of Public Buildings. 

I. D. Moore, City Attorney. 

William J. Hardee, City Engineer. 

DETROIT, MICHIGAN—17 

Philip Breitmeyer, Mayor. 

Charles A. Nichols, City Clerk. 

P. J. M. Hally, Corporation Counsel. 

David E. Heineman, City Comptroller. 

Max C. Koch, City Treasurer. 

Jacob J. IIarrer, Commissioner. 

R. H. McCormick, City Engineer. 

Joseph H. Rumney, Superintendent Garbage Collec¬ 
tion Department. 




c Ike Congress Hotel 
and Annex 

Formerly Known as the Auditorium Annex 

Located on Michigan Boulevard — 
Chicago’s most aristocratic thor¬ 
oughfare—overlooking Grant Park 
and the broad expanse of beautiful 
Lake Michigan Two minutes 
from the city’s activities JC JC 

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f Rooms, two persons, bath detached, $3.00 and up; with private bath $5.00 and up 



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I'rank Aldricii, Superintendent Street Cleaning. 
Frank II. Croul, Commissioner. 

Myrtle P. Hurlbut, Commissioner Department 
Parks and Boulevards. 

James C. Broderick, Chief Water Supply Depart¬ 
ment. 

George B. Siieehy, President Public Lighting Sys¬ 
tem. 

Frederick J. Clippert, President Waterworks Sys¬ 
tem. 

William B. Stratton, President Department of 
Buildings. 

Dr. Ciias. F. Kuhn, President Board of Education. 
W. C. Martindale, Superintendent of Schools. 

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA—12 

Samuel Lewis Shank, Mayor. 

Edward A. Ramsey, City Clerk. 

Harry R. Wallace, City Comptroller. 

Joseph B. Kealing, Corporation Counsel. 

Merle N. A. Walker, City Attorney. 

Martin J. Hyland, Superintendent of Police. 
Charles E. Coots, Chief of Fire Department. 

Henry W. Klausmann, City Civil Engineer. 

Joseph L. Hogue, Superintendent of Streets. 

Y\ illiam L. Resoner, Chief Inspector of Sweeping 
and Sprinkling. 

Thomas A. Winterrowd, Building Inspector. 

Isador Wulfson, Inspector of Scales, Weights and 
Measures. 

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE—17 

Hilary E. Howse, Mayor. 

G. W. Stainback, Chairman Board of Public Works. 
W. W. Southgate, City Engineer. 

Henry Curran, Chief of Police. 

A. A. Rozetta, Chief of Fire Department. 

George Ryer, Superintendent Waterworks. 

Patrick Cleary, Superintendent of Streets. 

S. F. Mosby, Superintendent Sprinkling and Work- 
house Keeper. 

J. T. Beazley, Superintendent Scavenger Department. 
W. E. Danley, Inspector of Meters. 

Lyle Andrews, Comptroller. 

Ciias. Myersm, Treasurer. 

Henry Schardt, Sealer of Weights and Measures. 
Dr. W. E. McCampbell, Chairman Board of Health. 

E. E. Barthell, Chairman Board of Education. 

J. J. Keyes, Superintendent of Public Schools. 


F. P. McWhirter, Chairman Board of Park Com¬ 
missioners. 

GALVESTON, TEXAS—6 

Lewis Fisher, Mayor. 

J. H. Kempner, Commissioner Finance and Revenue. 

H. C. Lange, Waterworks and Sewerage Commis¬ 
sioner. 

A. P. Norman, Police and Fire Commissioner. 

V. E. Austin, Commissioner Streets and Public 
Property. 

John D. Kelley, City Secretary. 

DENVER, COLORADO—4 

Robert W. Speer, Mayor. 

John Conlon, President Board of Aldermen. 

Dr. W. M. Robertson, President Board of Super¬ 
visors. 

Henry Read, President Board of Public Works. 

CLEVELAND, OHIO—9 
Herman C. Baehr, Mayor. 

Henry F. Walker, President of Council. 

Newton D. Baker, City Solicitor. 

IIiland B. Wright, City Auditor. 

H arry L. Davis, City Treasurer. 

A. B. Lee, Director of Public Service. 

F. G. Hogan, Director of Public Safety. 

G. M. Dahl, Street Railway Commission. 

R. Y. McCray, City Clerk. 

PORTLAND, OREGON—13 

A. G. Rushlight, Mayor. 

Henry A. Belding, President of the Council. 

James W. Morris, City Engineer. 

David C. Campbell, Chief of Fire Department. 
Arthur M. Cox, Chief of Police. 

Alex Donaldson, Superintendent of Streets. 

William Hey, Inspector of Plumbing. 

H. E. Plummer, Building Inspector. 

Dr. C. LI. Wheeler, Health Officer. 

E. T. Mische, Parkkeeper. 

Frank T. Dodge, Superintendent of Water Depart¬ 
ment. 

Harry N. Napier, Superintendent of Garbage Cre¬ 
matory. 

F. G. Buchtel, Sealer of Weights and Measures. 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN—4 

James Schriver, City Clerk. 

Aldermen: 



Invitation 

to the 

Municipal and Highway Officials 

who propose to attend the 

International Municipal 
Exposition 

During the past thirty years, practically every city of im¬ 
portance and most counties and towns in the country have pur¬ 
chased road making or street cleaning machinery from The 
Austin-Western Company, Ltd. of Chicago. Since our home 
city has been selected as the meeting place for the first Inter¬ 
national Municipal Congress, we feel that we should have the 
privilege of showing some attention to the municipal and high¬ 
way officials who visit Chicago at that time. 

So that adequate provision may he made, it is important 
that those who expect to attend should notify us by filling out 
and mailing to us the below coupon as early as possible. 


In addition to having a bootli on the main floor of the Coliseum we will give daily a moving picture exhibition of modern road 
making and street cleaning machinery in operation under various conditions in different sections of the country. This is a much 
more impressive and effective way of comparing the methods in use for this work at different points. We will also be prepared to take 
delegates through our plants, the largest Factories devoted exclusively to the manufacture of road and street machinery in the world 
and demonstrate any of the following. Street Sprinklers, Street Sweepers, Gasoline Road Rollers, Gasoline Mowers, Road Graders 
and Levelers of all sizes, Elevating Graders and Wagon Loaders, Rock Crushers both gyratory and jaw type, Dump and Spreading 
Wagons and Wheelers, Drags and plows. 

Make your headquarters at our offices at 910 S. MICHIGAN BLVD. only a few blocks 
from the Coliseum where the exposition is to be held. 

-CUT HERE- 

The Austin-Western Co., Ltd., Chicago 

I expect to attend the International Municipal Exposition in Chicago and will reach there about 

_ My address while in Chicago will he, ____ 

___ Name _ Title 

Address __ 































Joseph Ranihan. 

G. C. Oswald. 

William DeBoer. 

LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS—17 

C has. E. Taylor, Mayor. 

Fred Holder, Alderman. 

H. C. McCain, Alderman. 

J. H. Tuohey, Alderman. 

John Riegler, Alderman. 

C. E. Smith, Alderman. 

Wm. Rogoski, Alderman. 

J. H. Hollis, Alderman. 

L. X. Whitcomb, Alderman. 

Chris. Ledwidge, Alderman. 

Wm. Lange, Alderman. 

C. F. Cuningham, Alderman. 

Louis Volmer, Alderman. 

Geo. A. Stratman, Alderman. 

J. A. Adams, Alderman. 

Geo. W. Pardee, Alderman. 

IT. A. Pittard, Alderman. 

TOLEDO, OHIO—6 

Brand Whitlock, Mayor. 

J. R. Cowell, Director Public Service. 

J. J. Mooney, Director Public Safety. 

Cornell Schreiber, City Solicitor. 

J. J. Lynch, City Auditor. 

C. M. Feilbach, City Treasurer. 

DALLAS, TEXAS—9 

W. M. Holland, Mayor. 

J. Howard Ardrey, Pres. Dallas Planning League. 
J. Elmer Scott, Pres. Playgrounds Ass'n. 

J. J. Simmons, Mgr. Boren-Stewart Co. 

John W. Philip, a Director of Dallas Ad. League. 

M. H. Mahanna, c/o Dexter & Mahanna, Ins. 

Geo. B. Dealey, Mgr. Dallas Morning News. 
Edwin J. Kiest, President Times-Herald. 

J. O. Anderson, Manager Dallas Dispatch. 

JOLIET, ILLINOIS—8 

Edward M. Allen, Mayor. 

Jesse R. Brockman, Alderman. 

George Woodruff, Banker. 

Wm. H. Clare, Broker. 

Bernard L. Kelly, Alderman. 


Thomas Dororan, Lawyer. 

M. Harney, Alderman. 

Frank E. Hewett, Manager Rate Association. 

ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS—27 

W. W. Bennett, Mayor. 

E. A. Wettergren, City Clerk. 

Edwin Main, City Engineer. 

Carter H. Page, Jr., Superintendent of Water Works. 
Dr. W. E. Park, Commissioner of Health. 

A. E. Bargren, Chief of Police. 

T. E. Thomas, Fire Chief. 

Nicholas Nolan, City Sealer. 

ALDERMEN. 

Gusr Peterson, 

John A. Hallden, 

Edwin P. Barrett, 

Oscar H. Ogren, 

E. A. Anderson, 

Wm. Stenlund, 

F. J. Leonard, 

James T. Joslin, 

Mark T. Storen, 

Wm. F. Warner, 

Emmet F. Wilson, 

Ernst E. Smith, 

W m. W. Dickinson, 

Joseph Sullivan, 

Charles Andrews, Jr. 

FIRE AND POLICE COMMISSIONERS. 

Fred E. Carpenter, President. 

Charles Malm, 

C. H. C. Burlingame, 

C. C. Lofouist, Secretary. 

SAULT STE. MARIE, MICHIGAN—2 

A. J. Short, Mayor. 

F. T. McDonald, City Attorney. 

GRINNELL, IOWA—7 

J. H. Patton, Mayor. 

J. W. Gannaway, Chairman, Streets and Alleys. 

F. S. Edge, Chairman, Sewers. 

A. McBlain, Chairman, Water. 

A. C. Harriman, City Clerk. 

H. L. Beyer, City Solicitor. 

C. E. Harris, Health Physician. 



T HE First National Bank of Chicago was organized forty-eight years 
ago, in 1863, and since that time its growth has been coincident 
with that of the City of Chicago and the vast area which is commer¬ 
cially tributary thereto. The Capital in 1863 was $205,000, to-day its 
capital and surplus is $20,000,000. In 1863 the first published statement 
showed deposits of $273,000; they now exceed $116,000,000. The First 
National was the eighth institution to receive the approval of the Comptrol¬ 
ler of the Currency. To-day there are more than seven thousand national 
banks in the association. 

With the growth of the National Bank came the demand for trust 
and savings facilities, met in 1903 by the organization of the First Trust 
and Savings Bank, with a capital stock of $1,000,000. The stock of this 
bank is owned by the stockholders of the First National Bank. The 
growth has been marked. In less than eight years its capital and sur¬ 
plus has reached $5,500,000 with more than $52,000,000 in deposits. 

The growth of the bond and trust departments has been equally great. 

The former offers for sale only such securities as have been pur¬ 
chased primarily for the bank’s own investment; while the latter acts as 
trustee, administrator and in other fiduciary capacities, both for individuals 
and corporations, under the authority of the law. 

The First National Bank of Chicago, the First Trust and Savings 
Bank and the National Safe Deposit Company, located in the First 
National Bank Building at the northwest corner of Dearborn and Monroe 
streets, cordially invite those interested in the International Municipal 
Congress to visit their offices. 

[AMES B. FORGAN, 

President. 

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MANITOWOC, WISCONSIN—11 


Henry Stoze, Jr., Mayor. 

Alderman Plumb. 

Alderman Anderson. 

Alderman Sciiillin. 

Alderman Schroeder. 

Alderman Frazier. 

Alderman Thorison. 

H. F. Kelley, City Attorney. 

E. Vollindorf, Superintendent of Streets. 

Arthur Reichert, City Clerk. 

W. Rudolph, City Engineer. 

HOLLAND, MICHIGAN—3 

E. P. Stephan, Mayor. 

D. W. Jellema, Chairman Committee on Ways and 
Means. 

H. Van Tongeren, Chairman Committee on Streets 
and Cross Walks. 

BLUE ISLAND, ILLINOIS—14 

Julius A. Wessel, Mayor. 

Fred Hohmann, City Clerk. 

Judd H. Matthews, Attorney. 

John L. Beer, Treasurer. 

Aldermen: 

Herman L. Jauciizer. 

Louis C. Storz. 

John W. Wolff. 

James A. Noble. 

Henry Groskopf. 

William J. Meyer. 

Ernst W. Kott. 

William J. Kruse. 

Jerry Jones. 

Walter C. Bruce. 

MOUNT CLEMENS, MICHIGAN—5 

V. J. Bowers, Mayor. 

Aldermen: 

Albert Yearn. 

John Jarciiow. 

Harvey I.. Scott. 

John Jacobi. 

INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA—7 

J. Willis Wilson, Mayor. 

John P. Elkin. 


J. X. Lang ham. 

John S. Fisher. 

Harry W. Wilson. 

Joseph W. Clements. 

R. E. Young. 

OAK PARK, ILLINOIS—7 

A. Einjeldt, President of Oak Park. 

J. J. Arnold, Trustee. 

D. Nelson, Trustee. 

H. D. Wagner, Trustee. 

Henry Arthur Cale, Trustee. 

O. B. Barker, Jr., Trustee. 

E. C. Westwood, Trustee. 

XENIA, OHIO—5 

Wm. Dodds, Mayor. 

John Prugh, President Commercial Club. 
Frank Ridenour, Secretary Commercial Club. 
C. W. Whitmer, Director of Public Service. 
W. A. Conkem, Safety Director. 

KEWANEE, ILLINOIS—6 

B. F. Baker, Mayor. 

Peter Fischer, Commissioner. 

C. A. Dunbar, Commissioner. 

Wm. Baner, Commissioner. 

L. E. Nobiling, Commissioner. 

Thomas Welch, City Attorney. 

CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS—5 

W. Id. Stolte, Mayor. 

J. C. K. Lindbout, Corporation Counsel. 

J. W. Shaw, Street Commissioner. 

Id. Scott, Alderman. 

J. Crowe. 

MADISON, ILLINOIS—7 

F. A. Garesche, Mayor. 

J. L. Malone, Trustee. 

T. C. Vermillion, Trustee. 

Warren Champin, Trustee. 

C. A. Ulffers, Clerk. 

E. W. Hilker, Merchant. 

B. F. Wilkie, Rolling Mill Manager. 

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA—8 

D. C. Richardson, Mayor. 

Id. R. Pollard, City Attorney. 


Are You Considering 
A Banking Change? 

CL Most of our new business conies to us directly or in¬ 
directly through the influence of our customers — a very 
good evidence of their satisfactory treatment by us : : 

CL We are not only willing, we are also equipped to do our 
share in promoting the interests of our customers. : : : : 

CL, If you are considering a banking change and 
know any of our depositors, have a talk with them. 

CL, If you don’t happen to know any of our depos¬ 
itors — come in and have a talk with us. : : : : 

3 per cent paid on savings of one dollar or more 
2 per cent paid on checking accounts 
High grade 5 per cent and 6 per cent bonds 
Transacts a general banking and trust business 


Colonial Trust & Savings Bank 

Resources Over Seven Million Dollars— 

La Salle Street, Northeast Corner Adams 

OFFICERS - 

LANDON CABELL ROSE, President 

JACOB MORTENSON, Vice-President R. C. KELLER, Vice-Pres. & Cashier 

EMIL STUEDLI, Assistant Cashier W. F. DOGGETT, Assistant Cashier 





















C. E. Boi.ling, City Engineer. 

E. E. Davis, Superintendent of Water Works. 

W. P. Knowles, Superintendent of Gas Works. 

O. A. Hawkins, Commissioner of Revenue. 

James B. Pace, City Treasurer. 

Benjamin T. August, City Clerk. 

INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI—3 

Llewellyn Jones, Mayor. 

James S. Craig, City Clerk. 

H. H. Pendleton, City Engineer. 

GREENVILLE MISSOURI—5 

Wm. Yerger, Mayor. 

J. M. Robertshaw, Councilman. 

A. V. Wineman, Councilman. 

A. J. Cannon, Councilman. 

Lyne Starling, City Clerk. 

AMERICUS, GEORGIA—8 

J. E. Mathis, Mayor. 

C. J. White, Secretary, Board of Trade. 

Frank Sheffield, Chairman, County Commissioners. 
J. B. Ansley, City Engineer. 

L. G. Council, Chairman, Street Commission. 

Robert Christian, Superintendent of Roads, Sumter 
County. 

Dr. J. W. Chambliss, Chairman, Board of Health. 
A. G. Miller, Superintendent, Public Schools. 

BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS—1 

Benjamin Kowalski, Mayor. 

WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA—1 

Thomas D. Meares, City Clerk. 

ELGIN, ILLINOIS—1 

Albert Fehrman. 

MT. HOLLY, NEW JERSEY—1 

William IT. Mason, Chairman of Governing Com¬ 
mittee. 

MATTOON, ILLINOIS—4 

E. T. Guthrie, Mayor. 

C. L. James, City Engineer. 

F. A. ITeermans, City Clerk. 

Ira Powell, City Attorney. 

ANNISTON, ALABAMA-1 

J. L Wikle, Mayor. 


WINCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS—1 

Preston Pond, Selectman. 

ANDERSON, SOUTH CAROLINA—4 

J. L. Sherard, Mayor. 

C. E. Tally, Alderman. 

G. C. Sullivan, City Attorney. 

C. M. McClure, Alderman. 

BOULDER, COLORADO—1 

Dr. John B. Phillips, Alderman. 

FERGUS FALLS, MINNESOTA—S 

A. G. Anderson, Mayor. 

Chas. D. Wright, President First National Bank. 
Elmer E. Adams, Editor “J ourna L’ 

D. AI. Brown, Ex-Mayor. 

Dr. O. T. Sherping, Member Board of Health. 

D. A. Tennant, Fergus Flour Mills. 

N. F. Field, City Attorney. 

Leonard Eriksson, Attorney. 

MOBERLY, MISSOURI—1 

Wn lard P. Cove, Mayor. 

GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI—5 

J. W. Thomas, Mayor. 

N. D. Goodwin, City Clerk. 

Aldermen: 

M. P. Bouslog, 

G. J. Baltz, 

S. R. Sueed. 

BOONE, IOWA—4 

John S. Crooks, Mayor. 

B. P. Holst, Councilman. 

William Crowe, Councilman. 

F. L. Gorppenger, Councilman. 

AMARILLO, TEXAS—2 

J. H. Patton, Mayor. 

E. T. Miller, City Attorney. 

FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY—8 

James H. Polsgrove, Mayor. 

E. H. Taylor, Jr., Ex-Mayor of Frankfort. 

W. P. D. Haly, Ex-Adjutant General of Kentucky. 
J. C. W. Beckham, Ex-Governor of Kentucky. 

L. F. Johnson, Attorney at Law. 


ROBERT W. HONT 


JNO. J. CONE 


JAS. 0. HALLSTED 


D. W MCNAUGHEIR 


Robert W. Hunt & Co. 

ENGINEERS 


Bureau of Inspection 
Tests and Consultation 


At Exhibit 95 


will be pleased to welcome 
all delegates, and visitors 


THEIR INTERNATIONAL FIELD OF SERVICE TO 
MUNICIPALITIES AND PUBLIC PROJECTS 
WILL MAKE THEIR BOOTH A CENTER OF INTEREST 


GENERAL OFFICES 

CHICAGO, 1121 THE ROOKERY NEW YORK, 90 WEST ST. LONDON, NORFOLK HOUSE, E. C. 

PITTSBURG, MONONGAHELA BK. BLDG. MONTREAL, CANADIAN EXPRESS BLDG. 

SAN FRANCISCO, 418 MONTGOMERY ST. TORONTO TRADERS BK. BLDG. 

MEXICO CITY, 20 SAN FRANCISCO ST. BUENOS AYRES, CORDOBA BLDG. 


SERVICES 

Designing and consulting engineers, power, heat, light and water installations, 
reports and estimates on properties and processes, appraisement and valuations on 
all public utilities, tests on boilers, engines, motors, dynamos, and other machinery, 
inspection of cement and reinforcing steel, structural steel and all materials for 
construction, inspection cast iron and steel pipe and fittings, inspection and tests 
of paving brick, creosoted blocks, asphalt and all paving materials. 


CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL TESTING LABORATORIES 


They heartily unite with other Chicago firms in cordially inviting the officials 
of the municipalities of the whole world to visit their city. 





















J. H. Hazelrigc, President Civic League. 

W. G. Sirripson, Mayor Pro Tem. Frankfort. 

W. S. Farmer, Chairman Executive Committee, Busi¬ 
ness Men’s Club. 

MARSHALL, TEXAS—3 

T. S. Caven, Mayor. 

E. J. Fry. 

H. B. Pitts. 

HARRISBURG, ILLINOIS—5 

J. B. Blackman, Mayor. 

J. M. Pruett. 

Herman Martin. 

J. W. Shaw. 

Tiios. Davenport. 

SELMA, ALABAMA—1 

J. L. Clay, Mayor. 

ATLANTA, GEORGIA—1 

Courtland S. Winn, Mayor. 

DOWAGIAC, MICHIGAN—2 

D. C. Tiiickstun, Mayor. 

Wm. T. Easton, City Clerk. 

DULUTH, MINNESOTA—2 

M. B. Cullum, Mayor. 

Joseph Shurtel, President of the Council. 

WICHITA, KANSAS—5 

J. H. Graham, Mayor. 

E. T. Battin, Commissioner. 

H. J. Roetzel, Commissioner. 

R. B. Campbell, Commissioner. 

E. M. Leach, Commissioner. 

DU QUOIN, ILLINOIS—1 

E. E. Jacobs, Mayor. 

SIOUX CITY, IOWA—3 

A. A. Smith, Mayor. 

R. S. Whitley, Superintendent Public Safety Coun¬ 
cilman. 

Geo. M. Kelloc., Chief of Fire Department. 

ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS—5 

II. M. Sen river. Mayor. 


M. T. Rudgren, Commissioner, Department of Ac¬ 
counts and Finance. 

Archie Hart, Commissioner, Department of Health 
and Safety. 

Robert R. Reynolds, Commissioner, Department of 
Streets and Public Improvements. 

Jonas Bear, Commissioner, Department of Public 
Property. 

TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA—2 

Louis Gerhardt, Mayor. 

Levi G. Hughes, City Comptroller. 

CHILLICOTHE, OHIO—4 

Wallace D. Yaple, Mayor. 

Walter W. Boulger, Clerk of Council. 

James A. Cahill, Vice-Mayor. 

Claude B. Schaeffer, City Solicitor. 

MAYWOOD, ILLINOIS—14 

Cde L. Rankin, Mayor. 

T. Fred Laramie, Attorney. 

Albert W. Holden, Treasurer. 

Charles W. Strook, Collector. 

Frank W. Wickman, Superintendent Waterworks. 
Samuel H. Donaldson, Clerk. 

Louis Sweeney, Chief of Police. 

D. C. Everitt, Trustee. 

W. H. Scott, Trustee. 

L. J. McGinnis, Trustee. 

B. F. Oakes, Trustee. 

IT. W. Page, Trustee. 

J. Burdick, Trustee. 

Emory R. Hayiiurst, Physician. 

MIDDLETOWN, NEW YORK—1 

Rosslyn M. Cox, Mayor. 

CLINTON, ILLINOIS—5 

Geo. S. Edmonson, Mayor. 

Frank Rundle, Department of Accounts and Fi¬ 
nance. 

J. E. Moffett, Department of Streets and Public 
Improvement. 

Charles L. Dickinson. Department of Public Prop¬ 
erty. 

James M. Kirk, Department of Public Health and 
Safety. 


=DON’T FAID= 

To Carefully Inspect 

THE 20IH CENTURY LINE 

-OF- 

Road Making and Street Cleaning Machinery 

DURING THE EXPOSITION 

Booth S. E. Corner Coliseum 

-OR- 

Visit Our Office and Sample Room in the Hunter Building 
S. E. Corner Madison and Market Streets 

—A— 

COMPLETE LINE OF MODERN, PRACTICAL, ECONOMICAL, LABOR 
SAVING AND SANITARY MACHINERY 


20th Century Grader 
20th Century Ditcher 
20th Century Snow Plow 
20th Century Road Drags 
Witten Street Cleaning Carts 
Witten One-Horse Dump Wagon 

Witten 5-yd. Garbage Wagon 
Menzies Street Cleaning Carts 
Pickup Sweepers 

=THE — 

BAKER MFG. CO. 

Hunter Building 

Corner Madison and Market Streets 

On Madison—6 blocks west of State Street 

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 


ASK FOR COST DATA ON — 
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If you can't attend the Exposition, cut out this coupon and mail to us. 

THE BAKER MFG. CO. Check Items you are 

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City Exhibits 


At the date of publication of this prospectus the list of exhibits to be sent 
to the exposition by the cities was not completed. The cities that had been 
allotted space were as follows: 

New York City—New York’s famous budget exhibit; docks and ferries; 
sanitation methods. 

Chicago—Subway plans; harbor plans; official Chicago plan; school me¬ 
thods; library methods; health department methods; playgrounds. 

Philadelphia—Parks; widening of streets; comprehensive street planning. 

Boston—Public baths; playgrounds; street improvements; city planning. 

Rochester—Public health; city planning. 

United States Bureau of Commerce and Labor—Uniform municipal 
accounts and reports. 

Washington, D. C.—City planning. 

Des Moines—Street construction; civic center; commission government; 
moving pictures of municipal undertakings. 

St. Louis—City planning; city improvements. 

Milwaukee—Municipal dance halls and theatres. 

Pittsburg—Traction investigations, comparing street car facilities in the 
United States with those in Europe. 

Denver—Artistic streets; street lighting; reclamation of waste city property. 

Baltimore—New $20,000,000 sewer system, showing sewer construction and 
disposal by sceptic tanks, shown by models and drawings; municipal 
subways; conduits for wiring. 

Columbus—Best organized municipal electric lighting plan in the United 
States; extensive system of water filtration; collection and reduction of 
garbage. 

Kansas City—Road building; playgrounds. 

St. Paul—City planning. 

Minneapolis—Public construction by day labor. 

San Francisco—Civic center; feature development plans. 

Cleveland—New civic center. 

Portland—Parks. 

New Haven—Improvement commission. 

Seattle—City planning. 

Buffalo—Grade crossing improvements; water works; docks and markets; 
city planning. 

Port Sunlight, England—Drawings and Photographs of this, said to be the 
ideal industrial city. 

Hartford—City planning. Liverpool, England—Docks. 

Detroit—Parks and boulevards. Hamburg, Germany—City planning. 

Toledo—Parks and boulevards. Cologne, Germany—City planning. 

Dayton—City planning. Amsterdam, Holland—City planning. 



RATES-ROOMS WITHOUT BATH $1.50 AND UP, PER DAY. 

ROOMS WITH BATH $2.50 AND UP, PER DAY. 

CHICAGO HOTEL COMPANY, Wm. C. Yierbuchen, Pres. 


PALMER HOUSE 


HAS BEEN, NOW IS, and WILL CONTINUE TO BE 

CHICAGO’S MOST POPULAR HOSTELRY 


IT IS ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF. IN THE VERY HEART OF THE CITY’S BUSINESS DISTRICT. 
IN THE CENTER OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST SHOPPING MART. SURFACE AND ELEVATED CARS 
FROM ITS DOORS TO EVERY PART OF CITY. HAS LARGE, LOFTY, AIRY, HEALTHFUL, AND COMFORTABLE 
ROOMS. IS WITHIN SHORT DISTANCE OF PRINCIPAL THEATRES AND AMUSEMENT PLACES. POSSESSED 
OF EVERY CONVENIENCE KNOWN TO THE MODERN HOTEL. 

NEVER KNOWN TO “RAISE RATES” FROM ITS SCALE OF FAIR PRICES. OPERATES FOUR RES¬ 
TAURANTS, SURPASSED BY NONE IN AMERICA. ASSURES GUESTS PROMPT AND CORTEOUS SERVICE 
BY EVERY EMPLOYE. THERE ARE MANY OTHER REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD 

PATRONIZE THE PALMER WHEN IN CHICAGO. EXCLUSIVELY EUROPEAN. 


Hotels may Gome ami Hotels May Go. But the Palmer will Remain Torever 

THE REASON? 


THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHY THE 





















Subjects for Congress 

Among the classifications of topics for discussion at the Congress are the following: 


CHARTERS AND FORMS OF GOVERNMENT 

The consideration of the various forms of com¬ 
mission and other systems of municipal gov¬ 
ernment. 

Non-partisan elections for city government. 
Combining of legislative and executive func¬ 
tions and tax-levying and tax-spending powers 
in one small body. 

Short ballot. 

Abolishing ward lines and electing at large. 

MUNICIPAL ACCOUNTING 

Modern methods of municipal bookkeeping. 
Reports and publicity giving comparisons one 
year with another and making possible com¬ 
parisons one city with another. 

Budget making. 

PAVING AND CARE OF STREETS 

Street paving. Material and manner of con¬ 
struction. 

Paving repairs and municipal asphalt plant. 
Street cleaning, showing modern equipment and 
organization best adapted. 

Street lighting, artistic modern methods adapted 
to cities and towns. 

ROAD MAKING 

Macadam and bituminous macadam. 

Oiled roads and methods of caring for natural 
surface roadways. 

Improved machinery for modern road making. 

PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS 

Care and beautification of parks and boulevards. 
Improved equipment for children’s playgrounds. 
Public baths. 

HEALTH AND SANITATION 

Sewers and sewage disposal plants. 

Prevention and suppression of epidemics. 
Garbage collection. 

TAXATION 

Equalizing taxation. 

Restriction of city’s taxing powers. 

Method of collecting taxes. 

Special assessment tax. 

Personal property tax. 

CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS 

Almshouses. 


City work houses and reformatories. 

Prevention of crime. 

HOME RULE 

Restriction of city’s powers of self-government 
by state legislature. 

Restriction on indebtedness of cities. 

PUBLIC UTILITIES 

Control of public service companies by city and 
state. 

Indeterminate franchise. 

Municipal ownership. 

Street lighting. 

Water systems. 

Docks and water transportation. 

Meters—high pressure. 

Modern housing. 

CITY PLANNING 

Making cities attractive and wholesome. 
Landscape architecture and public buildings. 
Civic centers and boulevards. 

Tree planting and preservation. 

CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS 

Real assistance to a city government. 

Scope of their work. 

COMMERCIAL ORGANIZATIONS 

Things every citizen should know about his city. 
Relations to municipal government. 

SCHOOLS 

Building on scientific principles. 

Public care of children. Medical inspection. 
Health more important than education. 
Successful methods of teaching. 

Kindergartens and day nurseries. 

Public playgrounds. 

POLICE AND FIRE 

Police and police courts. 

Juvenile courts and the probation system. 
Preventing and fighting fires. 

Preventing crime rather than making criminals. 
Criminal identification systems. 

LIBRARIES—MUNICIPAL STATISTICS 

How a library can assist a city government. 



Chicago’s Most Beautiful Hotel 

CITY HALL SQUARE 

In the heart of the Shopping and Theatre District, 
opposite the City Hall and County Building. 

Every Room with Bath and running Ice Water. 757 Guest Rooms. 

Single rooms, all with bath, $2, $2.50, $3. St, $5. Suits of two rooms with bath, $1. $5, $0, $8, $10 
Suits of two bedrooms, parlor and two baths, $12, $15. 

Convention Halls, Banquet Rooms and Committee Rooms on 2d floor. 


COLLEGE INN 

America's Most Famous Restaurant is in the Hotel Sherman 










































































































































































General Exhibits 

Among the many articles for city use, the following will be shown at the exposition. 


Adding and listing machines 

Ambulances 

Antiseptics 

Antitoxin 

Ash handling systems 
Asphalt paving 
Auto fire engines 
Auto fire patrols 
Auto police patrols 
Auto street sprinklers 
Auto sweepers 
Auto trucks 
Automatic fire doors 
Automatic fire windows 
Automatic sprinklers 
Auxiliary fire equipment 

Ballbearing hinges 

Bascule bridges 

Bitulithic paving 

Bituminous macadam pavements 

Bituminous concrete pavement 

Brick-facing 

Brick-paving 

Bridge building 

Building construction machinery 
Building material for municipal con¬ 
struction 

Card index systems 
Cement garbage boxes 
Cement paving 
Centrifugal sewage pumps 
Church equipment 
City surveying materials 
Chemicals 
Clay products 
Concrete drains 
Concrete mixers 
Concrete sidewalks 
Concrete spreaders 
Concrete supplies 
Condensers 

Creosoted wood block paving 
Criminal identification systems 

Deodorizers 

Desks 

Disinfectants 

Drainage and curbing 

Drainage systems 

Draughting supplies 

Dredging and ditching machines 

Drinking fountains 

Educational exhibits, including every 
school necessity 
Electric apparatus 
Electric locomotives 
Electric meters 
Electric motors 
Electric sanitary appliances 
Elevators 

Envelope sealing machines 

Fire alarm stations 

Fire and burglar proof vaults 

Fire boats 

Fire doors 

Fire engines 


Fire engine houses 

Fire engine house equipment 

Fire escapes 

Fire extinguishers 

Fire houses 

Fire windows 

Firemen’s uniforms 

Fireproofing apparatus 

Formaldehyde 

Formalin 

Flexible metal hose 
Flood gates 
Fly swatters 
Fly screens 

Garbage disposal systems 
Garbage wagons 
Gas meters 
Gas testing machines 
Grade curbing 

Grain elevator transmission and equip¬ 
ment 

Harness 

Heating systems for schools 
Hod elevators 
Hoisting engines 
Hose carriages 
Hose carts 

Hospital appurtenances 
Hospital furniture 

Impervious wall facing 
Incinerating stations 
Inspection bureaus 

Laboratory supplies 

Lamp posts, city lighting appliances and 
lamp globes, reflectors, etc. 

Lighting fixtures 

Macadam pavements 
Machinery for city infirmaries, including 
laundry machinery 
Metal culverts 
Metal lath 

Motors, generators, converters 
Motorcycles 

Municipal office appliances 
Municipal office furniture 

Office supplies used in municipal ac¬ 
counting 
Office furniture 
Ornamental bridges 
Ornamental iron works 
Ornamental lamp posts 

Paving and road making devices 
Playground models 
Police flashlight systems 
Police patrol wagons 
Police uniforms 

Power and pump house conduits 
Prism plate glass 

Prism system for daylighting buildings 

Prison equipment 

Reinforced concrete 

Road grading apparatus 

Road oiling machines 

Road rollers 


Roofing 

Rubber lined cotton fire hose and coup¬ 
lings 

Rural municipal plows 

Sand and clay pumps 

Sand blast for iron work 

Sanitary devices for public buildings 

Sanitary garbage disposal plants 

Sanitary garbage wagons 

Sanitary street cleaners 

Scales 

School seating 
School books and supplies 
Septic tanks 
Sewer pipe 

Sewage pumping stations 
Sewerage disposal plants 
Sewerage systems 
Sewer cleaning devices 
Sidewalk construction 
Sidewalk doors 
Sightseeing autos 
Sludge valves 
Smoke stacks 
Steam road rollers 
Steam shovels 
Steel ceilings 

Steel forms for culverts and bridges 
Steel rails 

Stone road construction 
Street brooms 
Street car lighting 
Street cars 
Street flushers 
Street lighting systems 
Street sprinklers 
Street sweepers 
Structural ornamental steel 
Supplies for libraries, schools, hospitals, 
jails, court rooms 
Surface railroad frogs 

Tabulating machines 
Technical schools 
Telautographs 
Telephones 
Testing laboratories 
Tile 

Trade schools appurtenances 
Transportation devices 
Trees 

Uniforms 

Vaccine 

Vacuum cleaning equipment 
Vacuum cleaning machinery 
Vacuum cleaners 
Ventilating systems 

Ventilators, jail cells, prison construc¬ 
tion 

Vitrified brick 
Vitrified pipe 
Voting machines 

Wagons—garbage and waste 
Wagons—dump 
Water meters 
Wood paving 


The Only First Class Hotel 

within easy walking distance (two blocks) of 

The International Municipal Congress and Exposition. 


(New) 

Southern Hotel 

CHICAGO 

Complete in Appointment. Artistic. Absolutely Fireproof. 



300 Rooms. 200 with Private Bath. Circulating Ice Water. European Plan. 

Rooms with Hot and Cold Water for one person $1.00 and $1.50 per day. 
For two persons $2.00 and $2.50 per day. 

Rooms with Private Bath for one person $1.50 to $3.00 per day. 

For two persons $2.50 to $4.00 per day. 


ALEX. DRYBURGH, Pres, and Mgr. 


C. H. SHAW, Treas. 









Railway Terminals 

The railway passenger stations, with their locations and the railroads using each are as follows: 


Central Station—P ark row and 12th 
street; south side. 

Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville. 
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. 

Louis (Big Four). 

Illinois Central. 

Michigan Central. 

West Michigan. 

Wisconsin Central. 

Chicago & Northwestern— West Ma¬ 
dison and Canal streets, west side; All 
divisions. 

DEARBORN Station —Dearborn and Polk 
streets; south side. 

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. 

Chicago & Western Indiana. 

Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville 
(Monon). 

Erie. 

Grand Trunk. 

Wabash. 


Grand Central Station— Fifth avenue 
and Harrison street; south side. 
Baltimore & Ohio. 

Chicago Great Western. 

Chicago Terminal Transfer. 

Pere Marquette. 

LaSalle Street Station— Van Buren 
and LaSalle streets; south side. 
Chicago & Eastern Illinois. 

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific. 
Lackawanna. 

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. 

New York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel 
Plate). 

UNION STATION—Canal street, between 
Adams and Madison; west side. 

Chicago & Alton. 

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. 
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. 
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago. 
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. 
Louis (Pan Handle). 


Local Transportation 

The main entrance to the Congress and Exposition will be the front door of the 
Coliseum. This is in Wabash avenue near 15th street. 

Cottage Grove avenue trolley line stops at the door. The cars may be boarded at 
any point in Wabash avenue downtown or in Cottage Grove avenue on the south side. 

Indiana avenue trolley line stops at the door. These cars also run in Wabash avenue 
downtown and on the south side run in Indiana avenue. 

All east and west car lines on the south side, from 18th street south, transfer to the 
Cottage Grove and Indiana avenue lines. 

The State street trolley line runs one block west of the Coliseum. It may be taken 
in State street either downtown or south. 

The Wentworth avenue line runs three blocks west of the Coliseum and may be taken 
in Clark street downtown or in Wentworth avenue south. 

The Halsted street line also runs in Clark street, three blocks west of Wabash avenue. 

From the north side, the through-route cars in Clark street stop three blocks west of the 
Coliseum. 

From the west side, the 12th street cars connect with the Cottage Grove avenue and 
Indiana avenue cars at Wabash avenue. 

The South Side Elevated trains may be taken at any station on the union loop downtown. 
There is a station at 12th street, three blocks north of the Coliseum. Coming from the south 
side, there is a station at 18th street, three blocks south of the Coliseum. 


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RATES: 


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$1.50 to $2.00 

Two in Room 
$2.50 to $3.50 


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This is the most elegant Restaurant in Chicago. 
It is cooled by a refrigerating system so you can 
enjoy a meal in the hottest weather. 

The Elegance in finish, the Artistic Mural Dec¬ 
orations of Francois I, the Splendor of ceilings, 
walls and costly furnishings, create the most 
agreeable surprise. 

THE SERVICE IS THE BEST 
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Hotels 


There are several hundred hotels in Chicago, but the following is a list 
vouched for by the International Municipal Congress and Exposition, from 
any of which delegates may reach the Coliseum by a street car in from five 
to twenty minutes: 


Auditorium Hotel, 216 Michigan ave. 

Blackstone Hotel, Michigan ave. and Hubbard Place. 
Brevoort Hotel, 143 Madison st. 

Congress Hotel and Annex, Michigan ave. and Congress st. 
Great Northern Hotel, Jackson boul’v’d and Dearborn st. 
Kaiserhof Hotel, 266 Clark st. 

Hotel Majestic, 22 Quincy st. 

Hotel Sherman, 56 Clark st. 

Hotel Vickery, 1204 Wabash ave. 

Hotel Victoria, Clark and Van Buren streets. 

La Salle Hotel, 120 La Salle st. 

Lexington Hotel, 2135 Michigan ave. 

New Southern Hotel, Michigan ave. and 13th st. 

Palmer House, State st., cor. Monroe. 

Planters Hotel, Clark and Madison streets 



AGO SAVTCGS BSKP 


In addition to transacting all branches of a modern banking and trust company business, this i 
tution maintains a thoroughly equipped Bond Department and furnishes 

Checking Accounts Invited desirable investments for funds of aii kinds. 3^ interest on Savings 

OFFICERS 

LUCIUS TETER, President WM. M. RICHARDS, Asst. Cashier 

EDWARD P. BAILEY, Vice-Pres. HOUSTON JONES. Cashier EDWARD J. PRESCOTT. Secretary 

JOHN A. McCORMICK, Vice-Pres. H. T. SIBLEY, Manager Bond Dept. JOHN C. ARMSTRONG, Asst. Secy. 








More Commercial 
Clubs , Improve¬ 
ment Associ ations 
and Municipalities 

ha ve used the adv er¬ 
tising columns of 
The Infer Ocean 

in the last ten years them have 

used the advertising^ columns 

of all others Chicago news¬ 

paper^ puttqgether. : : : 



























xamtner 


BSSSjiS 


An advocate of better Municipal 
Government; business methods in the 
management of municipalities; a for¬ 
ward movement to give to the people 
in public improvements the value they 
pay in taxes; a closer harmony between 
municipalities, working for the gen¬ 
eral public welfare, The Examiner 
extends to the delegates to the 

International Munkipal 
Congress 


a hearty welcome. The Examiner is proud of 
its place as a humble worker in the ranks of the 
progressive institutions of America and believes 
great good will come from the Congress of the 
Municipalities of the world. 



















Standard Asphalt & Rubber Co. 

WILL EXHIBIT ON THE MAIN AISLE IN 

SPACE 62 

SARCO ASPHALT PRODUCTS FOR MUNICIPAL USES 


SARCO ASPHALT FILLER 


, 

SARCO ASPHALT BINDER 



Pouring Sarco Asphalt Filler with Special Pouring Cans. 

Used for filling the joints in brick or block pavements. Is 
applied at high temperature in a liquid state, completely filling the 
interstices between the bricks, from the sand cushion to the pave¬ 
ment surface. Adheres firmly to 
the brick, forming a rubbery 
buffer that absorbs the noise of 
traffic and provides for the ex¬ 
pansion and contraction of the 
pavement due to heat and cold. 

Owing to its tough, rubbery char¬ 
acter and power to adhere strong¬ 
ly it remains permanently in place, 
making the pavement absolutely 
waterproof and protecting the 
edges of the brick from chipping 
by the blows of traffic. Cannot 
be washed or swept from between 
the bricks. Ask for specifica¬ 
tions. 


Sarco Macadam Pavement, Lincoln Park, Chicago, Ill. 

Used for binding the pieces of stone in a macadam pavement 
into a tough, rubbery mass capable of resisting wear and weather 
conditions. Sarco Asphalt Binder is reduced to a liquid by the 

application of heat and is poured 


SARCO MINERAL RUBBER ASPHALT CEMENT 


SARCOLITHIC 

Mineral Rubber 
PAVEMENT 

WILL BE EXHIBITED 

An opportunity will be af¬ 
forded those attending the con¬ 
vention to inspect this remark¬ 
able pavement, which has 
gained world-wide recognition 
as the superior of all forms of 
street surfaces. Information 
relative to the satisfaction it 
has rendered in service on 
Chicago streets and a list of 
the streets in Chicago paved 
with Sarcolithic Mineral Rub¬ 
ber Pavement, as well as com¬ 
plete descriptive matter, will be 
furnished to those interested. 

Don’t Fail to See It. 



Sarcolithic Mineral Rubber Pavement. 

Sarco Mineral Rubber Asphalt Cement employed in the build¬ 
ing of Mineral Rubber or Bituminous Concrete Pavements, is espe¬ 
cially prepared to meet the exacting conditions of this type of road 

The excellence of this material as a binding cement for the 
crushed stone and sand of the above-named pavements may be 
appreciated from the fact that it has been used successfully in 
more than 1,000,000 square yards of paving surface and has dem¬ 
onstrated its marked superiority through years of actual service. 

The roadways in which this material has been used are the 
finest examples of the advance made in pavement construction in 
the last decade. 

Standard Asphalt & Rubber Co. 


over the pavement surface, pene¬ 
trating the voids between the 
rock fragments. Upon cooling, it 
binds the entire mass into a 
dense solid layer. An inexpen¬ 
sive method of constructing new 
roads or resurfacing old macad¬ 
am surfaces. The completed pave¬ 
ment is durable, dustless, noise¬ 
less and waterproof. Specifica¬ 
tions supplied upon application. 

For the convenience of persons 
desirous of inspecting Sarcolithic 
Mineral Rubber Pavement laid in 
Chicago, a list of streets follows. 


SARCOLITHIC 

Mineral Rubber 
PAVEMENT 

ON CHICAGO STREETS 

GrandBlvd., 44th to 45tli Sts. 
35th to 39th Sts. : Lake Shore 
Drive, Schiller St. to North 
Ave. ; Michigan Ave., 39th St. 
to 55th St., and Randolph to 
12th St. ; Oakwood Blvd., 
Grand Blvd. to Cottage Grove 
Ave. ; Jackson Blvd., Michigan 
Ave. to Chicago river; Midway, 
Cottage Grove Ave. to Stony 
Island Ave.; Jackson Park, 
Lake Drive south of Iowa 
Building, Stony Island Ave. 
and Midway. 67th St. to Yates 
Ave. ; Washington Park. Main 
Drive, 51st St. to Midway; 
Garfield Blvd., from South Park 
Ave. to State St. 



137 South La Salle Street, Chicago, III. 

Sarco asphalt products are adapted to many purposes. 

Ask for a copy of “Sarco Asphalt Products and Their Uses.” 










































Important Notice 

To Users of Asphalt 


This Company recently brought suit in Chicago against 
Byerley & Sons Co., Cleveland, Ohio, for infringement of 
patents owned by us. 

After the above suit had been filed, Byerley brought 
suit at Trenton, N. J., asking for a preliminary injunction 
against the STANDARD ASPHALT & RUBBER CO. of 
CHICAGO, ILL., claiming infringement of patents granted 
to Byerley. This suit was brought before the Honorable 


Judge Cross in the United States Circuit Court at Trenton, 
N. J. The apparent reason for bringing this suit in the 
United States Circuit Court in New Jersey was the fact that 
Byerley had previously secured in that Court an injunction 
restraining the Sun Company of Philadelphia, Pa., from fur¬ 
ther continuing the manufacture of a product known as 
“Hydrolene” on account of the process used being an in¬ 
fringement of the Byerley patents. 


Standard Asphalt & Rubber Co. Wins Suit in U. S. Court 


After two day’s hearing, on June 7, 1911, Judge Cross, 
who sat in the Court of Appeals in the Sun case, rendered 
a decision in favor of the Standard Asphalt & Rubber Co., 
denying Byerley’s motion for an injunction and assessed 

The Decision 

** CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, 

DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY. 

Byerley et al. 
vs. 

Standard Asphalt & Rubber Co. 

“CROSS, District Judge. The bill of complaint in this case is 
founded upon Patent No. 524,130, issued to one Francis X. Byerley, 
August 7, 1894. It has been sustained by the Circuit Court for the 
Western District of Pennsylvania. 181 Fed. 138, and by the Circuit 
Court of Appeals of this circuit, 184 Fed. 455. 

The matter as now presented, is upon a motion for a preliminary 
injunction, based upon ex parte affidavits. 

The claims relied upon herein are 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, 
some of which cover the process and others the product of the manu¬ 
facture of asphalt from petroleum. 

The defendant is operating under two subsequent patents issued 
October 24, 1899, to George F. Culrner and George C. K. Culmer. 
known as Nos. 635,429 and 635,430, one covering the process of mak¬ 
ing Asphaltic Fluxes and the other the product. 

It has been engaged, under said patents, in the manufacture of 
said product, since it was organized in 1895: and has invested in its 
plant, which covers seventy (70) acres, and is unencumbered, approxi¬ 
mately $1,000,000.00; it employs several hundred hands; its business 
extends over the United States, into Canada, South America and over 
the continent of Europe, and it has outstanding at the present time 
contracts representing in value $250,000.00, some of which are with 
the United States Government. The business of the complainant is 
relatively small, and while it is true that that fact does not offer any 
reason why he should not be given all the protection to which he is 
entitled, it does nevertheless furnish adequate reason for scanning the 
situation closely and carefully, in order to ascertain what, if any, 
equitable relief he is entitled to at this time. 


Byerley with costs of the action. 

Extracts from Judge Cross’s decision given below speak 
for themselves: 

in Part Follows: 

It appears in the case, furthermore, that there is now pending in 
the Circuit Court of the United States, for the Northern District of 
Illinois, Eastern Division, a suit instituted prior to this, by the 
defendant against the complainant herein, in which the complainant is 
charged with infringement of the Culmer patents above mentioned. 
Also that the patentee (now deceased) of the patent in the suit, knew 
of the manufacture of the product called for by the Culmer patents, 
between 189S and 1901, but did not claim that his patent was thereby 
infringed. There is other testimony tending in the same direction, 
some of which, however, is denied. But laying that aside, and turning 
to the patent in suit, it will be found to be essentially a distillation 
process. This appears not only from an inspection of the patent itself, 
but from the opinions of both of the courts of this circuit which have 
construed the patent. On behalf of the defendant, there are three 
or four affidavits made by as many different experts who swear that 
there is absolutely no distillation in the Culmer process, furthermore, 
that the Culmer process and product are, both of them, essentially and 
radically different from those of Byerley. This impliedly follows from 
the grant of the Culmer patents. The file-wrappers of those patents 
are not in evidence, so that it cannot now be determined what, if any, 

reference was made by the examiner in the Patent Office to the Byerley 

Patent, but the fact of their issue is presumptive evidence of their 
validity. 

Infringement must be shown by clear and convincing testimony, 
and the burden of providing it rests throughout upon the complainant. 
Without, by anything said herein, intending to forestall in any way 
the ultimate decision of this case, it can nevertheless be emphatically 
held at this time that the complainant has not sustained such burden. 

Doubts that now exist may or may not be resolved when the witnesses 

shall have been submitted to cross-examination, but however that may 
be, it would be rash indeed for the court to overthrow the evidence of 
defendant’s experts by force, as it were, and follow that up by putting 
its own unaided construction upon the claims of the Culmer patents, 
and then determine that they infringe the Byerley Patent.’* 

99 


The Importance of this Decision 


This opinion is of the greatest importance to every maker and user of asphalt, since it shows that the Standard 

& Rubber Co.’s natents are not infrinsrimr unon anv other natents. o.-. . .i.x ... x, . _, .u i_•_ _ ,_ _x _ 


Asphalt & Rubber Co.’s patents are not infringing upon any other patents, 
and still further strengthens our position that other makers of asphalt are 
infringing patents owned by the Standard Asphalt & Rubber Co. 

We have now pending in the United States Circuit Court for the 
Northern District of Illinois suits against BYERLEY & SONS, 
CLEVELAND. OHIO, AMERICAN ASPH.4LTUM & RUBBER CO., CHI¬ 
CAGO, ILL., and others on account of these infringements, and the valid¬ 
ity of our patents will be vigorously asserted and such patents protected 
by prompt legal action. 

We positively expect to sustain our patents as basic patents covering 
every commercial method now known for producing artificial asphalt 
products. 


Since our advent into the asphalt business, we have materially re¬ 
duced the cost to contractors and users generally, and we wish 
herewith to notify all users of asphalt that we shall continue furnishing 
the same meritorious and uniform SARCO products as heretofore at a 
fair and reasonable price. 

Our literature and suggestions from our corps of expert engineers is 
available to everyone, and we shall be glad to furnish prices and specifi¬ 
cations for the use of any of SARCO asphalt products upon inquiry. 

We take this opportunity to express our appreciation for the business 
received from our numerous customers all over the world and solicit a 
continuance of their valued patronage. 



Standard Asphalt & Rubber Co. 

137 South La Salle Street Chicago, Ills. 











ITULITHIC 

The Ideal Boulevard Pavement 

‘ ‘ THE 'BEST IpYE VER Y TEST ’ ’ 


W HY not pave your streets with BITULITHIC, the up-to-date street pave¬ 
ment; one which will stand the automobile traffic and which makes 
beautiful boulevards. As shown by the endorsements below, BITULITHIC 
pavement was laid on Sheridan Road, one of Chicago’s boulevards and automo¬ 
bile thoroughfares, in 1906 and after five years’ use is now in excellent condition. 


The Commissioners 
of Lincoln Park 

North Clark and 
Center Streets 
Chicago 

September 13th. 1910 

WarreD Brothers Company, 
59 Temple Place, 
Boston. Mass. 

Gentlemen:— 

I wish to state that the 
half mile of Bitulithie pave¬ 
ment put down by your 
Company on Sheridan Road 
between Grace and Evan¬ 
ston Avenue during the 
season of 1906 has given 
entire satisfaction to date. 
There have been no repairs 
necessitated by the wearing 
of the pavement and it 
seems to be highly popular 
with the residents of the 
district. 

Tours truly, 
(Signed) M. H. WEST, 
Sec’y & Supt. 






BITULITHIC IN SHERIDAN ROAD BOULEVARD, CHICAGO. ILL. 


C. D. Berry 
Stocks and Grain 
112 ‘TTialto ‘Bldg. 

Member Chicago Board of 
Trade 

Chicago Stock Exchange 

Chicago, Sept 22, 1910 
Messrs. Warren Brothers 
Company, 

Boston, Mass. 

The stretch of BiUrlithic 
Pavement in Sheridan Road 
you put down about four 
years ago I can safely say 
is the best boulevard pave¬ 
ment I have ever driven 
over considering the elimi¬ 
nating of dust and slipping 
of horses and skidding 
automobiles. I can see no 
wear since the installing of 
this pavement. 

Tours truly, 
(Signed) 0. D. BERRT 


The following table shows the development of the BITULITHIC Pavement throughout the United States 
and Canada embracing all latitudes from Edmonton, Alberta on the North to El Paso, Texas on the South. 


DEVELOPMENT OF 


Year 

Cities 

Square Yards 

1901. 


. *. . 16,400 

1902. 

.33. 

. 400,831 

1903. 


915,630 

1904. 

.45. 

. 1,04L724 

1905. 

.42. 

. 1,041,327 

1906. 


. 1,508,095 

1907. 

.66. 

. 1,924,222 

1908. 

.62. 

. 1,676,433 

1909. 

.74. 

.. 2,071,987 


BITULITHIC PAVEMENT 


Year Cities Square Yards 

1910.97.3,017,276 

Under Contract 

May 31, 1911.70. 3,290,061 


TOTAL, 16,933,986 


962 miles roadway 30 ft. wide between 
curbs. Uuder contract May 31, 1910.2,726,631 

Increase 1911 over 1910. 21$ 

Don’t delay, write today for explanatory booklets to 


Further information, gladly given upon request. 

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THE AMERICAN KRON SCALE 



THE KRON DORMANT WAREHOUSE SCALE 

Cut shows our 2,500 lbs. capacity Freight Scale at work in the Wabash Railroad 
Freight House, St. Louis. The truckman has taken out the weight of the truck, 
140 lbs., by use of tare beam, and the dial shows net weight of load, 450 lbs.—only 
one operation. First load and look at the dial. No springs. No guesswork. No 
mistakes. 

CAPACITIES 500 LBS. TO 6 TONS. 

SOLD BY - 

SPENCER OTIS COMPANY 

CHICAGO ST. LOUIS 

EXHIBIT SPACE 96 COLISEUM 





















































Chicago Headquarters Waterman’s Ideal Fountain Pen 


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In the noted city of Ober-Ammergau there was perhaps only one 
instance during the recent production of biblical stories that would 
carry one’s thought back to the City of Chicago. 

The large and notable audience of tourists from every part of 
the world would, for hours, be quietly and interestingly absorbed in 
the details of the wonderful production, the unique surrounding and 
the pleasures of the climate, which permitted the sky to become the 
roof of so picturesque a setting. 

With all this uniqueness, there was one custom which, owing 

to its prevalence among almost the entirety of this cosmopolitan as¬ 
semblage, impressed one most forcibly at the close of the play. The 
audience would rise and practically deluge the many places where 
the attractive Post Cards of this picturesque country' were for sale, 
and it was a strange sight to see hundreds of people before leaving for 
their respective points, standing around the scene of the Passion Play 
and addressing these cards to every point of the universe. 

The exclusive and necessary use of fountain pens could not help 
but cause one to reflect on the magnificent headquarters of the L. E. 
Waterman Company, on Clark street, Chicago, which is one of the 

places visited by almost every tourist of that locality before leaving 

on a tour. 

We learn that Waterman’s Ideal Fountain Pens are purchased from 
dealers in every city, town and hamlet, in every country, on the face 
of the earth, and that these branch stores, similar to the magnificent 
headquarters in Chicago, are maintained for the purpose not only to dis¬ 
tribute to the retail stores of their section, but for attention which 
may be required by individual users, and which attention the dealer, 

who sold the pen, has in most cases neither the facilities nor the time 
to extend. It is for this reason that the branch stores of the L. E. 
Waterman Company assist in the repairs and exchanges of tourist’s pens 
as a surety of the most complete satisfaction in the use of their pens, 
when most needed, that is, during travels when other methods of 
writing are inaccessible or inconvenient. 


The Chicago Store of the L. E. Waterman Company is centrally 
located on Clark street, between Adams and Monroe streets, in the 
neighborhood of the Ticket Offices of Steamship and Railroad Lines. 
The interior is entirely finished off in mahogany, with inlaid panel¬ 
ing, quite similar to the general style of the interior of a Pullman 
car. The walls and ceiling are beautifully designed and tinted and 
the entire effect is as fine or finer than that which we have ever 
seen in any store of the kind. The vaults and stock-rooms quite resemble 
those of a banking office, which, we learn, is due to the fact that 
great care is necessary in the carrying of thousands of dollars worth of 
this well-known pen. A regular banking system is in force in the 
handling, checking and balancing of the stock. There are fifty feet 
of show-case display space in the store, affording an excellent op¬ 
portunity for those interested to look over the entire line, and at 
these cases, which are comfortably arranged with seats, one may re-* 
main and try the various styles of Waterman’s Ideal Fountain Pens 
until entirely suited, when the pen points or entire pens may be ex¬ 
changed to the complete satisfaction of the owner. There is a very 
comfortable little room partitioned off on one side of the main store, 
where one may enjoy the writing comforts of the most modern hotel. 
The marvelous advance of the usefulness of this small but important 
factor of business and social life today has developed a wonderful 
business. 

New York is the home of the L. E. Waterman Company, where 
is located President F. D. Waterman, who has managed the de¬ 
velopment of the Company so thoroughly and completely in advance 
of the actual requirements, and in accordance with his optimistic 
ideas, that this Company today is so well organized in every part of 
the world that the great traveling public cannot help but thoroughly 
appreciate the superiority of Waterman’s Ideals and the care, thought 
and attention that may be received at every branch of their business. 

The Fountain Pen has come to stay, and, supplied under the 
familiar name “Waterman’s Ideal,” has proven to be one of the 
most useful mercantile articles of the present age. 






































DOYLAIR 

Inc. 

Smokeless combustion 


of All Fuels. 

Fifty per 

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heat for 

your money. :: :: :: 


Boilers 

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Cable Address 

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We Design, Execute and Produce Municipal, Trade and Manufacturers 

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731-733 First National Bank Building, CHICAGO, U. S. A. 


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H. H. Hoyt,Jr., Ass.Treas. 
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Building the Western Country 
In Wonderful Completeness 

To make a country with its cities, villages, highways, railroads, 

forests, orchards and farms of every sort in the space of a few years would seem 
to be a work of fancy only. 

H. L. Hollister & Co. will make a demonstration at the coming International Municipal 
Exposition that will surprise those who have not kept pace with the reclamation of the desert. 

The Kuhn organization of which H. L. Hollister & Co. are a part is in the midst of the 
greatest work of empire building now going on, involving the expenditure of many millions 

of dollars. They have placed 
thousands of families upon the 
wonderful irrigated farms of 
the IdahoandCaliforniadeserts. 

The lands have been re¬ 
deemed by irrigation and the 
people have been invited to 
come and make their homes 
under ideal conditions. 

Accompanying this an- 
noucement is a copy of one of 
their advertisements such as 
they are using in the press 
throughout the United States. 

Low values are put upon the 
land and thousands of fortunes 
have been made and still are 
being made by those who are 
sharing in this development. 

It is very interesting to know 
about this work of reclaiming 
and developing hundreds of 
thousands of acres and also very 
profitable for those who take 
part in it. 

The irrigated farm is the ideal farm because crops are always sure. No irrigating farmer would think of return¬ 
ing to farming under humid conditions. 

Successful farmers must have cities, towns and railroads. All this sort of development has been carried on to¬ 
gether and makes an important chapter in the country’s history. 

H. L. Hollister & Co. are always glad to give a little time to anyone who wants to talk about getting a home or 
farm in Southern Idaho or the Sacramento Valley of California, or who wants to join in this interesting work of develop¬ 
ment of desert lands. 

AN EXTENSIVE EXHIBIT OF IRRIGATED PRODUCTS IS MAINTAINED AT 35 WEST MONROE STREET, 

IN THE NATIONAL CITY BANK BUILDING, WHICH EVERY ONE IS INVITED TO SEE 

General offices of H. L. HOLLISTER & CO. 

1101 Home Insurance Bldg., 137 S. La Salle Street, ... CHICAGO, ILL. 


California Homes 
For Eastern People 


The "HOLLISTER PLAN" will 

enable you to have a home in Glorious Cali¬ 
fornia. You can begin your arrangements at 
once. The most important thing to do, is to 
make the start. People who have no idea 
of going to California, are quick to find a way 
when once they understand what awaits them. 
Do you want to know about the opportuni¬ 
ties? The Kuhn organization is building one 
of the greatest irrigating systems in the world 
in the famous Sacramento Valley, and has a 
record of irrigating 400,000 acres in the Twin 
Falls Country of Idaho. Your investment is 
therefore sound and safe. Your opportunity 
to get a valuable property that will continue 
to grow in value is ready right now. There¬ 
fore, act now. Organize a California study 
club and get your friends to join with you in 
considering these wonderful California oppor¬ 
tunities. You may grow oranges, lemons, 
figs, olives, grape fruit, almonds, walnuts, 
pecans, peanuts, sweet potatoes, melons, 
sugar beets, alfalfa, hogs, dairy cattle, poultry. 
You may adopt any farm or orchard specialty 
and make a big success and at the same time 
live in a delightful climate. Write today. 



H. L. HOLLISTER & CO. Dept. 144 

1101 Home Insurance Bldg., Chicago III. 

Please send free information about Sacramento Valley. 


Name_ 


Address _ 


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The Hotel man, the Restaurant man, the Business man, 

I don’t care what line of business he may be engaged in, partic- 

ularly if his place of business is in the down-town district of Chicago; when 
that man tells me the Association of Commerce is not doing him a world of 
good, when that man is not loyal to the Association of Commerce, he does not 
know what he is talking or thinking about. As proof I want to tell you something: 


S OME two years ago when my store was on the corner 
of Jackson Boulevard and Clark Street for over two 
months we took the address of every man making a purchase, 
the result showing that over one third of the purchases 
made in my store were made by people living outside of Cook 
County. The records showed purchases made by people 
from every state in the Union, men who are known as Trans¬ 
ients. Mark you this record was taken u T hen my store was 
not in the heart of Chicago, was not in the busy part of 
Chicago, yet I was surprised to find that my store received so 
much transient trade. Now that I have moved to the corner 
of Clark and Madison, hotels all around me, (as a matter of 
fact my store is exactly in the center of the heart of Chicago,) 
I expect to get still more transient trade in proportion to my 
regular trade. When one third of my trade comes from 


transients the same thing applies to every man and every 
firm in business in the down-town district. Some streets of 
course are better than others. My feeling is that I have just 
moved into Chicago. I have a home now for my business 
for the next twenty years and the reason why I took this 
page ad is on account of my loyalty to the Association of 
Commerce, they are doing so much for me whenever I can 
do anything for this our Association of Commerce, I feel as 
though it is my duty to do it. Do you know I always feel 
good when I do my duty, it helps to keep me happy, con¬ 
tented and satisfied. Come in some day when you are pass¬ 
ing by and ask for me—I would like to meet you face to 
face; I feel complimented when you ask for me. If you 
buy anything I feel better, if you don’t buy I smile just 
the same. 


I almost forgot to tell you I sell clothing, hats, 
and furnishing goods and I make shirts to or¬ 
der, this store of mine seems to have a happy 
faculty of making everybody happy who 
trades here. Come and breathe the atmo¬ 
sphere of a store of contentment and happiness. 


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WATER WORKS 


Officials — Problems—Machinery 

WATER OFFICIALS will attend the INTERNATIONAL MUNICIPAL 
CONGRESS AND EXPOSITION as official delegates from the cities to 
join in the discussions and to look at the exhibits as purchasing agents to determine 
what to buy. 

WATER PROBLEMS will be discussed by them and other water experts as one 
of the most vital actions of the Congress program. 

WATER MACHINERY of all types and makes will be shown at the Exposition. 

No such opportunity has come to you to show your water devices directly to the men who 
buy for cities. 

FIRE CHIEFS 

OF ALL THE AMERICAN AND CANADIAN CITIES WILL BE GUESTS OF THE 

INTERNATIONAL MUNICIPAL 
CONGRESS AND EXPOSITION 

AT THE 

Coliseum 1st Regiment Armory Outdoor Grounds 

SEPTEMBER 18-30 NEXT 

At the close of the Milwaukee Convention of th e International Association of 
Fire Engineers, the chiefs will be brought here on a specially chartered steamer to 
meet the other city officials, participate in the discussions on Fire Protection 
and guide the mayors, aldermen and other delegates in examination of the 
Latest Improved Fire Apparatus exhibited by the manufacturers. 

Space to Exhibit City Necessaries May Be Arranged For at the General Offices 
EDWARD H. ALLEN, General Manager, 1107 Great Northern Building 

Telephonesi Harrison 4295; Automatic 64295. Cable Address, INTEREXPO 















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Jose Vila and 
La Evidencia 

Havana Cigars made 

at Tampa, Florida 

Berrtman ©rotljers 

C0afeEt9 

For sale by the leading Job¬ 

bers and Retailers through - 
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Note: It is not the practice of this house to advertise its 
product, as quality has made their reputation; evidence 
output 18,000,000 cigars per year. 

We are using this page to notify the public in general 
that the Jury of Awards (five experts) at the Tampa Expo¬ 
sition gave Jose Vila and La Evidencia cigars First Award 
Medal and Diploma for general excellence, quality, 
workmanship and selection. 

As there are 300,000,000 cigars produced each year 
at Tampa, Florida, being 90$ of all the Havana cigars 
made in the United States, the receipt of the Diploma 
and Medal by our factory is a dependable statement that 
OUR PRODUCT IS THE BEST of the 300,000,000. 



















Bilienfeld Broshe? Co. 


CHICAGO, I LLS. 







United States Depositary 


Foreign Exchange 




Letters of Credit Issued 


The Corn Exchange 


National Bank 


of Ch 

icago 

Capital . 

$3,000,000.00 

Surplus . 

5,000,000.00 

Undivided Profits 

500,000.00 

Deposits 

60,000,000.00 


Ernest A. Hamill, President 
D. A. Moulton. Vice-President 
Frank W. Smith. Cashier 


OFFICERS 

Charles L. Hutchinson, Vice-President 
B. C. Sammons, Vice-President 
J. Edward Maass, Ass’t Cashier 


Chauncey J. Blair. Vice-President 
John C. Neely, Secretary 
James G. Wakefield, Ass’t Cashier 


DIRECTORS 


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Charles H. Wacker, 
Benjamin Carpenter, 


Martin A. Ryerson, 
Watson F. Blair, 


Chauncey J. Blair, 
Edwin G. Foreman, 


Edward B. Butler, Charles H. Hulburd, Clarence Buckingham, Clyde M. Carr 
Charles L. Hutchinson, Edward A. Shedd, Fred. W. Crosby, Ernest A. Hamill 


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ROOFING and PROMENADE 
=—— TILES =—— 

H lAVING taken space No. 142 in the International Municipal 
jjj Exposition to be held in Chicago in September, and being 
| confident that this Congress will bring to the attention of 

-— - ^ the inquiring many facts which will be of extreme value, 

we especially solicit the visit of the representatives of other munic¬ 
ipalities, not only to the exhibition, but to our own booth, where we 
anticipate having facilities for affording rest and also an exhibition 
which may possibly be instructive and entertaining. We, therefore, 
urge upon the various officers of the municipalities to whom this pros¬ 
pectus may be sent, the desirability of a representation at this Congress. 

LUDOWICI —CELADON COMPANY 

1212-1219 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUILDING, CHICAGO, ILL. 

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ZMKercher Bath Company 

Electric-Turkish Baths-Massage 

Our Baths and Treatments are na¬ 
tures own restoratives. For Rheu¬ 
matism, Nervousness, Poor Cir¬ 
culation, Sleeplessness and a gen¬ 
eral run down condition, you will 
find nothing better than one of our 
refreshing Combination Baths and 
Treatment, to restore youth, vim 
and vigor. 

505 South Wabash Ave. 

Cor. Congress Street 

GENTLEMEN ALL HOURS 
LADIES 8 A. M. to 8 P. M. 

EVERY WEEK DAY. 

Phone 3189, 3190 Wabash. Established 1878 . 



The Best Automobile Livery Service in the World 

NO TAXICABS 


Emery Motor Livery Company 

57-61 East Thirty-Fourth Street 

CHICAGO 

Private Equipment Careful, Reliable Chauffeurs 

VISITORS: IT WILL PAY YOU 
TO OPEN A CHARGE ACCOUNT WITH US 

Write us for full particulars so that we may know you when you arrive 

PHONE: DOUGLAS 115 




















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Great Northern Hotel 


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CHICAGO 


The most centrally lo¬ 
cated fireproof hotel 
in City. 

Will be the headquar¬ 
ters of many prom- 
inent delegates to the 
International Munic¬ 
ipal Congress and Ex¬ 
position : 


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RATES: 

WITHOUT BATH 

Single —$1.50 and $2.00 per day. 
Double— $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 
per day. 

WITH BATH 

Single— $2.50, $3.00, $3.50 and 
$4.00 per day. 

Double— $4.00, $5.00 and $6.00 
per day. 

Grill Room —The popular price 
room—airy and cool. 

Summer Cafe — Parlor floor 
table d’hote dinner every evening. 

JOHN C. ROTH, 

Managing Director 


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HOTEL MAJESTIC 







QUINCY STREET, between STATE and DEARBORN 

Directly opposite Main Entrance to New Post Office. 

CHICAGO 


THE BEAUTIFUL NEW ST. JAMES ENGLISH GRILL ROOM, LOCATED 
ON THE TOP FLOOR, COMMANDING A MAGNIFICENT 
VIEW OF THE CITY AND LAKE MICHIGAN. 


ABSOLUTELY FIRE-PROOF. EUROPEAN PLAN. 

200 ROOMS. RATES $1.50 PER DAY and UP. 

EVERY ROOM AN OUTSIDE ROOM. 

150 ROOMS WITH BATH. 

FRANK HALL, Manager. 

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Established 1873 


Western Trust and Savings Bank 

The Rookery, Chicago 

DEPARTMENTS 


L, 


COMMERCIAL—Checking Accounts of Bankers, Merchants, Manufacturers 
and Individuals Received. 

SAVINGS—3 Per Cent Interest Allowed on Deposits. 

BOND—Municipal, Railroad and Corporation Bonds Bought and Sold. 

FOREIGN—Letters of Credit and Drafts available in all parts of the World, 
Travelers’ Checks, Cable Transfers, Foreign Money. 

REAL ESTATE—Approved Loans on City Property. 

TRUST—Acts as Administrator, Executor, Escrow Agent, Receiver, Transfer Agent 
or Registrar of Stock and as Trustee for Bond Issues. Wills Drawn. 

Capital, $1,250,000.00 


Phones: 

HARRISON 1314-1315-1316 


AUTOMATIC 

62756 


Owen H. Fay Livery Co. 

AUTOMOBILE LIVERY AND GARAGE 
TAXICABS TOURING AND LIMOUSINE CARS 
STORAGE. WASHING, POLISHING. ETC. 


Offices in Principal 
Hotels and Clubs 


Main Office and Garage 
435 Plymouth Court 




















The Peoples Trust and 
Savings Bank 

MICHIGAN BOULEVARD and ADAMS ST. 


Commercial Savings and 
Trust Departments 

Safe Deposit Vaults 


A Cordial Welcome is Extended to Delegates to the Congress 


HOTEL BREVOORT 


120 Madison Street, CHICAGO 



Arthur M, Grant, Manager 
ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF 

EUROPEAN PLAN 

RATES, $1.50 perday and up: 

1 person without bath. 

2 persons without bath, 

$2.50 and up. 
RATES, $2.50 per day and up; 

1 person with bath. 

2 persons with bath, 

$3.50 and up. 


Centrally Located, two blocks 
from Wholesale. Retail, 
Shopping District. 

BEST RESTAURANT and 
SERVICE IN THE CITY 



Let us tell you how to save about one-half 
when purchasing Typewriters. 

We are serving the very largest corporations 
as well as thousands of individuals. 

We offer all standard makes. Our guarantee 
is just the same as the Manufacturer gives. 

Write us now. This particular moment is 
the time to ask questions as to How and Why. 

Let us convince you. 

Ask right now. 

TYPEWRITER SALES COMPANY 

191 N. DEARBORN STREET 
CHICAGO Please Mention ILLINOIS 

Association of Congress 








































































LEXINGTON HOTEL 



500 Rooms — Fire Proof 


ONE OF CHICAGO’S BEST 
HOTELS. JUST OUTSIDE 
THE LOOP DISTRICT 
WHERE IT IS COOL AND 
QUIET. :: :: :: :: 


Michigan Boulevard 


HORACE L. WIGGINS, MANAGER 
J. E. MONTROSE, CHARLES McHUGH, PROPRIETORS 


(T N' 

CHICAGO offers exceptional opportunities 
for the study of Engineering and Architecture 

Our direct connection with leading engineers and architects 
enables us to offer the strongest courses in 

DRAFTING 

DESIGN AND ENGINEERING SUDJECTS 

Hundreds of plans for Chica¬ 
go’s skyscrapers and machin¬ 
ery now being built are avail¬ 
able for reference of our stu¬ 
dents who inspect actual con¬ 
struction work during erection. 

Day and Evening Classes 

Architectural and Mechanical 
Drafting, Structural Steel De¬ 
sign for Bridges and Buildings. 
Surveying, Estimating Rein¬ 
forced Concrete, etc. 

IMPORTANT 

In case you are unable to 
come to Chicago you can 
get this Instruction at 
Home by Mail. Send for complete catalog of our Resident 
School or folder describing Correspondence courses. 

CHICAGO TECHNICAL COLLEGE 

(Member Chicago Association of Commerce) 

Athenaeum Bldg., 59 E. Van Buren St., CHICAGO. 


SARATOGA 
BARBER SHOP 

J. H. HEPP, Proprietor 


29 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, III. 



Expert Manicurist 

Scientific Masseurs Expert Chiropodist 
















































Officers 

ORSON SMITH - President 
EDMUND D. HULBERT 

Vice-President 
FRANK G. NELSON 

Vice-President 
JOHN E. BLUNT,Jr. 

Vice-President 
J. G. ORCHARD - - Cashier 
P. C. PETERSON 

Assistant Cashier 
C, E. ESTES, Assistant Cashier 
LEON L. LOEHR 

Secretary and Trust Officer 
F. W. THOMPSON 

Manager Farm Loan Dep’t 
H. G. P. DEANS 

Manager Foreign Dep't 



Merchants 
Loan ^0 


^Hrust 

Company 


Capital, Surplus and 
Undivided Profits 


$9,000,000 


Directors 

ENOS. M. BARTON 

CLARENCE A. BURLEY 
ELBERT H. GARY 
WILLIAM A. GARDNER 

EDMUND D. HULBERT 
CHAUNCEY KEEP 
THIES J. LEFENS 

CYRUS H. McCORMICK 

JOHN S. RUNNELLS 
EDWARD L. RYERSON 
ORSON SMITH 
MOSES J. WENTWORTH 


The Bond Department of this Bank makes a 
specialty of handling Municipal Bonds and invites 
correspondence from cities contemplating bond issues. 


112 West Adams Street 



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Jtflcrril & |5>ons 
^lattng Companp 

Oldest Platers in Chicago 

WHITE AND BLACK 
NICKELING, COPPER 
PLATING, DIPPING, 
OXIDIZING 

Telephone Main 4 58 9 

162-166 NORTH CLINTON STREET 

Chicago, Illinois 

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SMOKE 

is a sign of 

Wasted Money 

When that fact is once thoroughly appreciated by power plant 
operators the “smoke nuisance” will become obsolete. 

Fuel properly consumed does not produce smoke. 

Fuel not properly consumed not only makes smoke but wastes a 
large percentage of the heat value of the fuel. 

Now, correct consumption or combustion—which ever you choose 
to call it—largely depends upon the manner in which the fuel is “stoked,” 
or fed to the fire. 

The test designed power plant in the world will be a “smoker” if 
the stoking is improperly done. 

Green Chain Grate Stokers 

Make Proper Stoking Automatic—Insure Proper Combustion—and Thereby 

ELIMINATE SMOKE 

And by insuring this proper combustion of fuel. Green Chain Grate Stokers not only do away with smoke but 
also get all of the heat value out of the coal with consequently large savings in cost of fuel. 

In addition to these advantages. Green Chain Grate Stokers achieve large savings in power plant 
labor—increase boiler capacity—and save money in many waya. 

Now is a good time to make an investigation of what the Green Chain Grate Stoker can do for you as 
our exhibit in Space No. 94 is ready for your inspection and you will never have a better opportunity to 
figure with us than right now. 

Green Engineering Company 

GEN. OFFICES 1325 Steger Bldg. CHICAGO 
SHOPS; East Chicago, Ind. 



VUtA 


- MANUFACTURERS ALSO OF- 


Green Chain Grate Stokers 
Geco Pressure Waterbacks 


Geco Ratchet Ash Drags 

Geco Ventilated Flat Ignition Arches 



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When the cities of the world come 
together in Chicago to exchange 
ideas of government— 

When their official delegates exa¬ 
mine the devices on exhibition 
here to buy machinery and 
material for their cities— 

Are you going to be there with 
an exhibit of what you manu¬ 
facture and to demonstrate how 
it may be used for city welfare f 

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International Automatic Valve & Supply Go. 

of America 


Automatic Steam, Gas, 
Air and Hydraulic Valves. 
Steam Specialties and 
Fittings. 


Hennebohle’s Patented 
Safety Refrigerating and 
Ammonia Valves. . . . 


General Offices: 15th Floor Steger Building 


Telephone 
Harrison 2050 


Jackson Boulevard and Wabash Avenue 

Chicago, U. S. A. 


Cable Address: Intervalve 
Chicago, Ill. 

Western Union Telegraph Code 


HOTEL VICTORIA 

VICTORIA HOTEL COMPANY 

E. C. PUFFER - Proprietor and Manager 



Fireproof Construction. 

Newly Furnished—Everything Modern 

CLARK & VAN BUREN STS., CHICAGO 

250 Rooms, $1.00 and up 


MITAL WINDOWS 
METAL DOORS 

OF ALL KINDS AND FOR ALL USES 

TESTED AND APPROVED BY 
UNDERWRITERS' LABORATORIES 

V0I6TMANN & COMPANY 

445-459 W. Erie Street - - - CHICAGO 

SEND FOR CATALOGUE 


















































Sherwood_ Music School^ \ 

Founded by Wm. H. SHERWOOD 

GEORGIA KOBER, President. WALTER KELLER, Director. 

712 FINE ARTS BLDG. 


Highest Standard of Artistry 

FACULTY INCLUDES 

PIANO —Georgia Kober, Maurice Rosenfeld, Mabel Webster Osmer, H. J.Wrightson, Amanda MacDonald, 
Ethel Marley, Lucy Seator. 

VOCAL —Wm. A. Willett, Lorena Beresford, John Rankl, Hildred Hanson. 

ORGAN and THEORY —Walter Keller. 

VIOLIN —Bernhard Listemann. 

PUBLIC SCHOOL MUSIC—Wm. ApMadoc. 

DRAMATIC ART —Winnifrede Woodside Just. 

AND OTHERS 


Catalogue on application. Address the Director. ID 

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NEW MONROE BATHS 

67-69 

West Madison St. 

Edelweiss Building 

An Ideal Spot 
Plenty of light and 
fresh air 

WM. TAYLOR, Mgr. 

Turkish Bath and Private Sleeping Room 

$ 1.00 

Private Instruction in Physical Culture 

PROF. SAM ZOELLNER, M. J. DWYER and A. C. BANKS 

HEALTH BUILDING EXPERTS 

Fully Equipped Gymnasium 



Auditorium Hotel 

W. S. SHAFER, Manager 



For twenty years the leading hotel of the city, will 
be carefully maintained as such. Upwards of $300,000 
have been expended for improvements, new plumbing, 
decorations and furniture. 

Cuisine and service unexcelled. 

Rates per day: $2 and up single; $3 and up double. 
With private bath $3 and up single; $5 and up double. 

Michigan Boulevard and Congress Street 
Chicago, Illinois. 



































ITALIAN GARDEN 


ONE OF THE FOUR ELEGANT DINING ROOMS OF THE 



HOTEL & RESTAURANT 


CLARK ST. NEAR JACKSON BLD. 

FAMOUS GERMAN RESTAURANT 


DINNER 


From 6 to 9 p. m., including wine 
SUNDAYS 12 TO 9 P. M. 


$ 1.00 



Good Music 

Is a prime essential to the welfare of your 

City Beautiful 

Good Music for your Concerts and Entertainments. 
Good Music for your Churches and Schools. 

Good Music for your Parks and Places of Public 
Amusement. 

The standard and standing of music in 
your city is in large degree a true measure of its 
intellectual and artistic culture, and of the strength 
of its public spirit. 

As music appeals to all alike, irrespective 
of nationality, religion, or party, it exerts a strong 
influence toward civic pride and civic unity. 

_ Aside from its cultural and social values, 

[til Good Music is a paying investment for your commu- 
raj nity’s commercial interests as it furnishes not only 
r|=j a distinctive and valuable form of general publicity, 
but also directly attracts people from away to your city 

Through its special departments for supplying Musical Artists and Enter- 
170 tainers. Music Teachers and Supervisors of Music, Bands and Orchestras, 

I - THE CHICAGO MUSICAL EXCHANGE is in every way equipped to take care 

of your musical needs, great or small, promptly and satisfactorily. “Talent 
of Merit” is our motto.a "Complete Musical Art and Entertainment Ser¬ 
vice” our business end and aim. Address 

ra The Chicago Musical Exchange 

1= (incorporated) 

[qJ] E. A. Stavrum, Manager II Member Chicago 

~r 1014-1015 Steinway Hall, Chicago, III. || Ass’n of Commerce 

I til Phones: Harrison 6679 : Auto 62612 : Cable Address: Murstav 


All Outside Rooms Cool, Comfortable 

Elegant 

Newly Furnished Rooms 

With 

Private Bath 

$1.00, $1.50, $2.00 PER DAY 

NEW 

HOTEL 

VICKERY 

Telephone, Electric Light in every room 

TWO BLOCKS FROM COLISEUM 

1204 Wabash Ave. 

Southwest Corner Twelfth Street 


ESTABLISHED 1879 

State Bank of Chicago 

S. E. Cor. La Salle and Washington Sts. 

CHICAGO 


Capital,.$ 1,500,000.00 

Surplus,. 1,500,000.00 

Undivided Profits, - 465,670.00 

Deposits,. 24,601,292.00 


OFFICERS 

L. A. GODDARD, President 

JOHN R. LINDGREN, Vice President 
HENRY A. H AUGAN, Vice President 
HENRY S. HENSCHEN, Cashier 

FRANK I. PACKARD, Asst. Cashier 

C. EDWARD CARLSON, Asst. Cashier 
SAMUEL E. KNECHT, Secretary 

WILLIAM C. MILLER, Asst. Secretary 

YOUR BUSINESS INVITED 


J. E. O. PRIDMORE, Architect 

1701 First national Bank building 
CHICAGO 

MODERN THEATRE DESIGNING - 

A SPECIALTY 


TELEPHONE CENTRAL 2887 







































Our Reputation 

for rapid-fire, Johnny-on- 
the-spot printing and 
delivery, has been the 
principal factor in the 
building up of our busi¬ 
ness : : : : 

Snappy Promptness 

has not, however, been the 
only asset of this house. 

CL We printed this hook. 

Look it over and it will tell 
you we are masters of 

Type Wizardry 



H. C. Sherman & Go. 

508 S. Dearborn Street : : CHICAGO 

Telephone: HARRISON 5753 

"Delegates to the International Municipal Congress and Exposition 
are invited to visit our plant. 

























































































CEO. H. GAZLEY 
Manager 






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La Salle at Madison Street 
Chicago 


Hotel La Salle is one of the 
finest hotels in the world and 
excels all Chicago hotels in the 
elegance of its furnishings, the 
completeness of its comforts, 
the beauty of its decorations, the 
excellence of its cuisine and 
the thoroughness of its service. 


Hotel La Salle is the recognized 
headquarters of representative visitors 
from every State in the Union. 


RA TES: 

One Person: 

Room with detached bath: $2 to $3 per day «ss 
Room with private bath: $3 to $5 per day 

Two Persons: 

Room with detached bath : - - - $3 to $5 per day 
Room with private bath: - - " $3 to $8 per day 
Connecting rooms and suites as desired. 


All rooms at $5 or more are the 
same price for one or two persons. 


Hotel La Salle gives more 
for the price you pay 
than any other hotel 
in Chicago 


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